[ltp] Immortal process that does not let the computer to sleep.

[Michael Keyl]

Am Mittwoch, 28. Dezember 2005 11:47 schrieb Richard Neill:

> However, the existence of such a state is surely a kernel bug?

No, its not a bug. Killing a process during an IO operation can lead to 
serious data loss and file system corruption. Hence there must be some 
protection against the termination of processes in the wrong moment.

> Is there 
> anything that can be done to fix it?

Nevertheless, I agree that a possibility to kill processes in "D" state (at 
least in an emergency and if you know what you are doing) would be useful.

Michael