Can't kill hung remote CP copy

[Joe Zeff]

On 04/14/2012 12:25 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> Under what circumstance would killing a waiting process
> be worse than a process that should have waited,
> but terminated instead?

I think that the idea is that if the process is in an uninterruptable 
sleep, it's for a good reason and the kernel is expected to assume that 
the programmer knew what he was doing and why.  Most of the time, that's 
a good assumption; in fact, almost always.  Alas, there's currently no 
way to override that on the very rare occasions that it's wrong.