Re: unkillable process in R state?

James Sutherland (jas88@cam.ac.uk)
Thu, 11 Oct 2001 23:57:00 +0100 (BST)


On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Christopher Friesen wrote:

> Okay, I just tried this, and the pertinant results were:
(gdb hangs, trying to attach)
>
> (gdb) attach 31075
> Attaching to program: /usr/bin/find, Pid 31075
>
> Attaching to another program worked fine.
>
> Any other ideas?

Take a look in /proc/31075 and see what's going on in there, if you can.

Obvious one: what was find doing - where was it looking?

James.

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