Unkillable process in STOP state

Eugene Grosbein eugen at grosbein.net
Thu Nov 12 05:09:49 UTC 2015


On 12.11.2015 07:12, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
> I have amd64, STABLE r288167.

>   PID    TID COMM             TDNAME           CPU  PRI STATE   WCHAN    
> kill -STOP don't have effect.
> gdb can't be attached.

That is expected, STOP-ed process cannot do anything, can't even die.
Use "kill -KILL", then "kill -CONT", so the KILL signal could be delivered and do the job.




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