From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 6 4:21:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (UCB-Async4-CRISCO.CRIS.NET [212.110.129.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8DA214E18 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 04:20:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ru@ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3/UCB) id OAA99072; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 14:18:39 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 14:18:39 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Alwyn Schoeman Cc: "FoxChat.Net" , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Killing Zombies. Message-ID: <20000106141839.N31198@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Mail-Followup-To: Alwyn Schoeman , "FoxChat.Net" , FreeBSD Questions References: <386EEDF0.A367E24E@FoxChat.Net> <20000106140935.J8865@littlecruncher.prizm.dhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <20000106140935.J8865@littlecruncher.prizm.dhs.org>; from Alwyn Schoeman on Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 02:09:39PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 02:09:39PM +0200, Alwyn Schoeman wrote: > On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 12:19:29AM -0600, FoxChat.Net wrote: > > How does one kill a "zombie" process? > > You don't. Zombie processes aren't really processes, they're just hanging > around in the process table until something happens, what precisely I've for- > gotten. > See wait(2), sigaction(2). -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message