Interesting post and HN comment thread, I'll have to read it in full (or at least the good parts). Anyway, here's a loosely related post that may be of interest

Interesting post and HN comment thread, I'll have to read it in full (or at least the good parts). Anyway, here's a loosely related post that may be of interest, from my blog: Unix one-liner to kill a hanging Firefox process: http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2008/09/unix-one-liner-to-kill-hanging-firefox.html http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2008/09/unix-one-liner-to-kill-han... It had an interesting thread of comments in which both others and I participated, and at least I learnt some things.