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Forum Topic - kill (including with -9) doesn't work any more: (2 Items)
   
kill (including with -9) doesn't work any more  
As of a couple weeks ago, kill and kill -9 cannot reliably kill a process. When I do it, it works once, and every 
subsequent attempt fails, the only way to stop the process is to reboot the device.

I just tried the trunk-developer build 6629 (London device), which is from today, and it has the same behavior. In my 
case it's a python process, under the python interpreter, but for -9 it shouldn't matter - by the book, the process 
being killed should not be able to intercept SIGKILL, no matter what it does or how.
(Note that SIGTERM did not work either)

Having to reboot the device many times in a single debugging session is a... hassle, at least.

Can someone please look into this? I can reproduce this behavior on demand and I can provide any logs or other files 
from the device, as needed.

Re: kill (including with -9) doesn't work any more  
This is the wrong forum - it is for QNX4 issues!.

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On 2013-08-19 1:24 PM, "Dragan Juric" <community-noreply@qnx.com> wrote:

>As of a couple weeks ago, kill and kill -9 cannot reliably kill a
>process. When I do it, it works once, and every subsequent attempt fails,
>the only way to stop the process is to reboot the device.
>
>I just tried the trunk-developer build 6629 (London device), which is
>from today, and it has the same behavior. In my case it's a python
>process, under the python interpreter, but for -9 it shouldn't matter -
>by the book, the process being killed should not be able to intercept
>SIGKILL, no matter what it does or how.
>(Note that SIGTERM did not work either)
>
>Having to reboot the device many times in a single debugging session is
>a... hassle, at least.
>
>Can someone please look into this? I can reproduce this behavior on
>demand and I can provide any logs or other files from the device, as
>needed.
>
>
>
>
>
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