This may be system V, but I believe that a kill -9 will kill stuff so 
that it really really dies.  -Jonathan

On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, Steven Carlson wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been having problems with processes refusing to die under NetBSD.
> Even when I do a kill -KILL or enter single user mode they still stick
> around.  Has anyone experienced this?  I use the bash shell.
> 
> Also, when I use dt and I get a talk message, or someone writes to my
> terminal it messes up the display.  Would it be possible for dt to "grab"
> anything written to the tty it is started from and display it nicely on
> the screen, or for dt to run in the background and the shell dt started
> from becomes virtual console no 1?
> 
> Sometimes when I type a key will "stick" and I will have to hit another
> key to stop it from printing across the screen.  I assume this is a bug
> with the adb, and it's probably been fixed by now. The kernel I'm using
> is a custom kernel from Oct 10.
> 
> Thank you for your help.
> 
> --
> Steven Carlson
> stevec@accessone.com
> 
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