Re: not able to shutdown the database, detached processes to terminate

joel-garry_at_home.com (Joel Garry) wrote in message
> requiring a reboot after shutdown abort. There are definitely things
> that can't be killed from task manager (like imp in a batch file under
> task scheduler) that can be killed with kill.exe, even as system
> administrator. I wish I understood that.

My understanding is that both Task Manager and kill.exe from resource kit (or other third party tools) issue TerminateProcess() on the victim process. They should unconditionally terminate that process (equivalent to kill -9 on UNIX, although Windows Win32 subsystem doesn't have this concept of signals). But Task Manager does some other checking first which may prevent you from issuing TerminateProcess().

(To OP, if you don't answer our questions, nobody is willing to help you further.)

Yong Huang Received on Thu Sep 16 2004 - 11:23:10 CDT