How to create an uninterruptible sleep in C?

Generally speaking, uninterruptible sleep states are considered undesirable. Under normal circumstances, they cannot be triggered by user applications except by accident (e.g,

2025 Oct 18

linux

I understand these are uninterruptible sleep states often related to waiting for data from hardware such as a hard disk. This is a production server so rebooting is a very last

2025 Sep 19

Why there is a state called `TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE` in Linux

As you could read from that answer, setting the current process state to TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE is needed for make schedule() call, performed by that thread, to

2026 Jan 14

how to find out what it is waiting for

When looking at the process with "ps ax" the stat column is "Dl" which means "uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)". Is it possible to find out more details on what the process is

2025 May 04

c

On one particular system we see WIS-Streamer get stuck in an TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state; From the command line: the ps status for the process is

2025 Nov 14

linux

An uninterruptible process is a process which happens to be in a system call (kernel function) that cannot be interrupted by a signal. To understand what that means, you

2025 Oct 24

linux

For Linux "defunct" and "zombie" processes are the same. From man ps: Processes marked <defunct> are dead processes (so-called "zombies") that remain because

2024 Jun 28