Can't kill hung remote CP copy

[Alan Cox]

> Under what circumstance would killing a waiting process
> be worse than a process that should have waited,
> but terminated instead?

When it leaves the system in an unstable state or where corruption could
follow. Far better then to leave that process stuck unless things sort
out.

In the case of NFS btw read the mount page for the "soft" and "intr"
options and also read about umount -f.

Alan