A certain  kernel process has acquired a semaphore lock and meanwhile during this period the process gets killed abruptly (and it has not released the sem lock..//.sem down).....and the other processes cannot acquire the lock, what can be done in this case.<br clear="all">
<div><br></div>-- <br><b style="color:rgb(102,102,204)">Regards,<br>Santosh Kulkarni</b><br><br>