Re: Sure-fire "kill"

From: Joel Garry <joel-garry_at_home.com>
Date: 17 Jul 2003 11:59:09 -0700
Message-ID: <91884734.0307171059.37085cb9@posting.google.com>

Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_exxesolutions.com> wrote in message news:<3F160621.9F171420_at_exxesolutions.com>...
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> I have yet to see kill -9 not kill a process.

I have. That is what a zombie is. But I wasn't talking about that.

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> Looking at v_$session is not a reliable indication of whether a session has been killed.

Fair enough. What would be a reliable indication of whether a session has been killed? Are you saying Oracle doesn't know?

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