kill -9 doesnot work

[Rodolfo Alcazar]

On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 18:08 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> Hi ALL
> 
> kill -9 doesnot work

Yep. Does not always work. AFAIK, mostly happens when the kernel expects
for a hardware signal. There are some other causes, also. Try finding
the problem, instead of killing it!

> [root at e guptavi]# ps -eaf | grep bdc
> root      3218  3126  0 17:28 ?        00:00:00 ./bdc_switcher an -n
> an_adb_switcher-d01 -b adb_switcherpre.tcl -a adb_switcherpost.tcl -p
> 22001 -vvvvvvvv
> root      4240  4191  0 18:01 pts/1    00:00:00 grep bdc
> [root at e guptavi]#  kill -9 3218 3126
> [root at e guptavi]#
> [root at e guptavi]# ps -eaf | grep bdc
> root      3218     1  0 17:28 ?        00:00:00 ./bdc_switcher an -n
> an_adb_switcher-d01 -b adb_switcherpre.tcl -a adb_switcherpost.tcl -p
> 22001 -vvvvvvvv
> root      4243  4191  0 18:01 pts/1    00:00:00 grep bdc
> 
> Any clue
> 
> Thanks and Regards
> 
> Kaushal
> 
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