[OpenAFS-devel] SIGKILL ignored by afsd

[Michael Meffie]

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

> 
> 
> > 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.

Hello,

It is possible the "afsd" progress Kalle was trying to kill was actually
the afsdb dns lookup helper daemon, which normally is in a syscall
until it is dispatched to do some work.

> 
> > 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.


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Michael Meffie <mmeffie@sinenomine.net>