Uhmmm.... I might have missed something in all UNIX - related manuals I have seen, but... if # kill -9 <some pid> fails for a program (that has hung) , what should I do then... Does there exist any kommand, or call, UNIX specific, HURD specific, or Mach specific - that completely and unfrendly removes a program from the tasklist, and whipes it out of the virtual memory? // Liss