Terminal "hang up" problem

[Donn Cave]

Quoth JD <lists at webcrunchers.com>:
...
| Control-c or control-d has NO effect,  so it's hung up somewhere,  but 
| we have no idea
| where.

One way to look at it might be ktrace.  Somewhere in there, you're
stuck in one of those damned kernel mediated services like NFS, and
some ioctl to the offending device will be the last syscall reported
for the process.  lsof might be good enough.

	Donn Cave, donn at drizzle.com