trying to read from dying disk

[Ivan Van Laningham]

Hi All--

jdh2358 at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> I'm currently attempting something with
> 
>   http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/node368.html
> 
> but it seems the read operation is ignoring these signals just as it is
> ignoring my signals from the kill command -- perhaps unsurprisingly.
> 
> Perhaps there is no hope.
> 


Basically, if you are waiting for a hardware interrupt that never comes,
you are doomed.  You can escape by rebooting; in dire cases the only way
out is to power down.  One of the prime sources of zombie processes on
unix systems is users trying to interrupt (with ^C) a process that is
waiting for a hardware interrupt.

Metta,
Ivan
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