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JimmaDaRustla on Jan 21, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why doesn't `kill -9` always work?

I always thought kill -9 won't always work because it currently has control of a system resource, like disk or something.

dfox on Jan 21, 2013 [–]

That is almost correct understanding. Processes that are waiting for things like disk I/O do not respond to any signals, not even KILL.

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