Version 1.16
Jan 31, 2008
sysvinit-tools
Tools used for process and utmp management.
MKILL
Mkill - Send processes making a active mount point busy a signal
SYNOPSIS
mkill [-SIG] [-u] /mnt1 [/mnt2...]
mkill [-l]
mkill [-l]
DESCRIPTION
mkill determines all active mount points from /proc/mounts and compares this with the specified mount points. Then mkill seeks for processes making this mount points busy. For this search only the links found in /proc/<pid>/ are used to avoid hangs on files provided by network file systems like nfs(5). The default signal is SIGTERM for termination. If a mount point is not active, that is that it is not found in /proc/mounts, mkill will do exactly nothing.
OPTIONS
| -<SIG> | Signals can be specified either by name (e.g. -HUP, -SIGHUP) or by number (e.g. -1). |
| -0 | The special signal 0 force mkill to list all processes making the specified mount point busy. |
| -u | Perform a lazy umount on the specified mount points before sending the signal SIGTERM or SIGKILL. |
| -l | List all known signals. |
EXAMPLES
mkill -TERM /varThis will terminate all processes accessing a seperate /var partition.
mkill -HUP /dev/ptsAll processes using a pseudo-terminal slave will hangup.
RETURN VALUE
Always success which is that zero is returned.
COPYRIGHT
2008 Werner Fink, 2008 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Germany.
AUTHOR
Werner Fink <werner>
