> Warp wrote:
>>   But as you say, maybe they have fixed that lately because it hasn't 
>> been
>> happening lately, even with erroneus DVDs.
> 
> 
> I don't know if they fixed that specifically. I just saw in the release 
> notes of the new kernel you posted a few days ago that it's possible to 
> now kill-9 some types of processes blocked on a "fast wait" that isn't 
> so fast after all. So steps are being taken.

I remember having trouble with FUSE filesystems. If I had a sshfs 
filesystem mounted, and a program tried to access a file from it, and 
the network connection dropped, very often the program got completely 
hanged and not even kill -9 got rid of it, until a (looong) timeout.

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