Re: killing a hung process

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 08:33:41PM -0500, Ben Jansens wrote:
> 
> This is from the wm-spec:
> 
> If processes fail to respond to the _NET_WM_PING protocol _NET_WM_PID may be
> used in combination with the ICCCM specified WM_CLIENT_MACHINE to attempt to
> kill a process.
> 
> Is there a reason why you can't just XKillClient on the window id to kill
> off the program?
> 

Any program in an infinite loop or other hang that doesn't ever return
to the X event loop will fail to exit in response to XKillClient.

Havoc