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NelsonMinar on Jan 21, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why doesn't `kill -9` always work?

This would be a good time to re-read Waldo's "A Note on Distributed Computing", which points out how remote filesystems will never act like local filesystems. http://labs.oracle.com/techrep/1994/smli_tr-94-29.pdf

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