Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 15:19:54 -0700 (PDT) From: "M.T." <mbsd@pacbell.net> To: Radko Keves <rado@studnet.sk> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: How kill Zombie Message-ID: <20020825151845.A356-100000@atlas.home> In-Reply-To: <20020825162818.GA42137@studnet.sk>
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On Sun, 25 Aug 2002, Radko Keves wrote: > >You can't "kill" a zombie process. It's parent process is responsible > >for cleaning it up. Your choices are: > > > 1. kill the parent process. > > 2. fix the code in the parent process to clean up after itself. > > > hi that's nice but what to do if the process was adopted by init ;) In that case you don't have a problem, as init will reap all dead processes assigned to it. Hence, no zombie. /Mikko To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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