Re: Remotely rebooting a machine with state 'D' processes, how?

Herbert Xu (herbert@gondor.apana.org.au)
Sat, 11 Aug 2001 08:50:35 +1000


Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> wrote:
> In article <20010810231906.A21435@bonzo.nirvana> you write:

> You have to use the reboot() system call directly as root, with the
> proper arguments to make it avoid doing even any sync. See

> man 2 reboot

How do you do this when the process in the D state is holding the BKL?

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