[H-GEN] 'unlocking' hung cdburner process

[Matthew Taylor]

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Nikolai Lusan wrote:
[snip]

>lets carfully define "hung" here, do you meant that the cdrecord
>proccess is running and has not returned? Is the main problem that you
>can't access your burner device?
>
alas overnight power outage forced a reboot and I did not note the 
process state. I dont recall seeing the 'D' flag on the process listing.

another read of man ps revealed many potential 'tricks' for ps, tho I 
did like the
'I_WANT_A_BROKEN_PS' environment variable, surely an opportunity to play 
a prank on an innocent user.




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