killing a process gone bad.

Masataka Ohta mohta at necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp
Thu Nov 1 17:15:39 AEST 1990


In article <1119 at massey.ac.nz>
	GEustace at massey.ac.nz (Glen Eustace) writes:

>It would appear that kill doesn't lock the process table will killing
>all of the process group, they still kept replicating.

>I would appreciate any further comments by anyone who has a technique
>that will actually solve the situation in practice not theory.

You should "kill -STOP -1" several times.

Having stoped all self-replicating processes, you can kill all of them.

If your UNIX dose not have STOP, you are out of luck.

					Masataka Ohta



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