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Subject:	Re: minTTY will not interrupt 'locked' process
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On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 02:16:00AM -0400, Paul McFerrin wrote:
> I'll watch for it to occur again.  Is there anything I can collect for you 
> in this besides a ps(1) showing the process is inactive or should I just 
> forget it for now.

There isn't anything to collect.  If the process blocks reading a disk
file you won't be able to interrupt it.  As I said, linux behaves the same
way.

cgf

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