[OpenAFS-devel] SIGKILL ignored by afsd

Harald Barth haba@kth.se
Mon, 20 Jun 2016 10:04:21 +0200 (CEST)


> I'm experiencing the strange issue that sending `SIGKILL` to `afsd`
> using `sudo pkill -KILL afsd` (returns with `0`) doesn't have any effect
> on afsd which remains running (...)

I'd guess afsd is waiting for a syscall return.

> an OpenAFS and not a Linux bug. Should I thus file it?

Signals are (for all processes in Linux) are handled after
that the syscall returns.

Harald.