There are a few mentions of this on the MySQL mailing list, archives of which can be found here:
http://groups.google.com/...iling.database.mysql If you want to force a process to abort on your system, send kill a SIGKILL signal. i.e.
kill -9.
Signal 9, SIGKILL, cannot be blocked, trapped, or ignored by a process. This is useful, when you're trying to kill off a process that won't listen to (the default) SIGTERM (-15) for some reason.
- wil