Re: Temporary NFS problem when rpciod is SIGKILLed

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Mon Oct 25 2004 - 11:04:59 EST


>It is not killable, neither 2.4 nor 2.6 one. It is by design I think,
>because I *must not* kill it, or else NFS rootfs will fall off
>and box will hang.

If it's not killable (per kill(2)), why can killall5 (which will probably use
kill(2)!) do it?


Jan Engelhardt
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