sigkill – Tarik Billa

How to stop ‘uninterruptible’ process on Linux?

April 8, 2023 by Tarik

Simple answer: you cannot. Longer answer: the uninterruptable sleep means the process will not be woken up by signals. It can be only woken up by what it’s waiting for. When I get such situations eg. with CD-ROM, I usually reset the computer by using suspend-to-disk and resuming.

How to gracefully handle the SIGKILL signal in Java

December 18, 2022 by Tarik

It is impossible for any program, in any language, to handle a SIGKILL. This is so it is always possible to terminate a program, even if the program is buggy or malicious. But SIGKILL is not the only means for terminating a program. The other is to use a SIGTERM. Programs can handle that signal. … Read more