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SoftTalker on May 26, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: TIL: timeout in Bash scripts

I've had many, many cases of processes in Linux getting wedged up bad enough that they cannot be killed. Usually this seems to involve them waiting on I/O.

chgs on May 27, 2025 [–]

Kill -9 won’t help in those cases though

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