romig@osu-eddie.UUCP (02/28/85)
From: romig (Steve Romig) We have a Vax 780 running 4.2Bsd, and we are having a problem wherein if you have a server which has been doing all sorts of IPC business, and you try to kill it (like with ^C) then unix grinds to a halt (or something like that - it's hard to tell. It doesn't panic or anything useful like that.) I'm staring at the bug reports (without the FIXes) from Mt Xinu that I picked up at the Usenix conference. There's a bug report from Michael Killian (killianm@rpi.csnet) from June 19, 1984, that describes a similar problem (where he says that if you kill the process from the terminal you started it on, it hangs the world, but killing it from another terminal kill sthe process without hanging everything.) However, he doesn't report a fix for it. Can someone out there give me a good idea of what it going wrong and what I can do about it? We'd appreciate it... --- Steve