[techtalk] killing processes on dead pts/n 's

[David Merrill]

Greetings,

I access my linux box from work with PuTTY, and occasionally I lose my
connection. When this happens, I wind up with a process (mutt usually,
or vi) that is still running, that I sometimes cannot kill using
"kill", or with top. It seems to be because the process no long has a
pts associated with it.

Is there any other way to reliably kill such a process and free its
resources? It's not a huge problem, but after I've accumulated a dozen
or so of these, it bugs me.

tia,

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