> On Wed, 29 Jan 1997, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > i got this a general qvestion abovt db. when i get into it for whatever
> > > reason, is there a way to kill the process that cavsed the problem? i dont
> > > reallyt know enogh tovse trace and the like effectivly and the only way i
> > > can get ovt of db is hard restart...
> > 
> > The problem is that when you get dropped into the debugger, it's the
> > kernel which is given up. There's no "process" to kill; the whole
> > computer's given up the ghost.
> > 
> 
> OK, then here's a question.  Let's say you have some process (like a
> screwed up xdm) that prevents you from logging in and killing it.  Your
> modem is hung up, you forgot to run a getty off the serial port, so
> there's no way back into your computer.  Is there any way to kill a
> particular process (you can certainly list them!) from the db> ?

I don't think so.  I believe that once you have hit the programmer switch 
and dropped into the debugger, it pretty much kill the kernel, so all 
processes have pretty much stopped by then (even tho it still shows them).

I could easily be wrong, tho.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
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