Am Montag, den 20.02.2012, 20:39 +0100 schrieb Bernd Mueller <ragnar76@googlemail.com>:
So is it the kernel that is failing to stop them or something else ?
imho it is sambas fault
In real life it's like that: When you cut the root of a tree all branches fall down. AFAIKK ;) : A program has to take special actions to keep childs running when the parent process stops. So I believe, under *normal* conditions all the childs exits when the parent exits.
But maybe that is only true when the parent is an shell?...but, maybe the smbd processes running aren't childs, what does -ps Af | grep "smbd" output? There one can see if these processes are child processes of another smbd.
Greets, m