Unkillable processes?

[Ben Scott]

On 2/25/06, Michael ODonnell <michael.odonnell at comcast.net> wrote:
> The kernel has no notions such as "run level" and "single-user
> mode"  .... So, to the extent that frobbing your run level has
> any effect  at all on any wedged processes, it's a safe bet that
> it's a distant side effect of all the other flailing that's going on.

  See also: Shotgun debugging.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/S/shotgun-debugging.html

"... the making of relatively undirected changes to software in the
hope that a bug will be perturbed out of existence ..."

:-)

-- Ben