Failed kill -9

[Dave Hammond]

In article <[628]unix at oldcolo.UUCP> dave at oldcolo.UUCP (Dave Hughes) writes:
>How else, short of a reboot, can I kill a process on a port that
>kill -9 won't kill?

If the process is sleeping waiting for i/o (the `ps -l' PRI value will
be 20 or less), you can not kill it.  The only answer is to reboot.

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