Re: 2.0.3x I found something unique...
Olaf Titz (olaf@bigred.inka.de)
Tue, 29 Sep 1998 11:31:27 +0200
> > It is not harmless. It requires a reboot including a complete fsck, if
> > I understood that correctly.
> I'm not sure about the fsck. It certainly requires a reboot and if the
> hung process were init, your process table would quiclkly fill up and
> kill your machine. I don't think I'd like to see ANY of the system
> processes hit by this. It occurs to me that I've been lucky so far..
If _any_ process is stuck and can't get killed, you can't unmount all
the filesystems it is using, so the need for fsck. Unless that process
is statically linked, it will have open libraries in /lib at least,
and most programs open files in /var too.
olaf
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