Computone Problems??

[John Stewart]

In article <6585 at pbhyf.PacBell.COM> jdp at PacBell.COM (Jerry D. Pierce) writes:
>However, once a getty is respawning, it CANNOT be killed.  I can
>edit the inittab  and change the entry to off and then do an init q
>which has no affect, I can even do a kill -9 PID and it won't die...

Often such behavior is due to a call to sleep() in the driver which
is not followed by a check to see if the wakeup was due to an interrupt.
In such a case, an interrupt will wake up the driver, which will determine
that the resource it is waiting for is not yet available and then just
go back to sleep.
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