Re: Remotely rebooting a machine with state 'D' processes, how?

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> Linus Torvalds <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > In article <[e-mail]> you write:
>
> > You have to use the reboot() system call directly as root, with the
> > proper arguments to make it avoid doing even any sync. See
>
> >        man 2 reboot
>
> How do you do this when the process in the D state is holding the BKL?

If it's in D state, it will be sleeping, and will have released the BKL.

Besides, does the reboot system call actually get the BKL? I don't think
it should need it..

		Linus