Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 00:00:48 +0800 (WST) From: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Killing zombie processes Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980526235818.18124A-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au> In-Reply-To: <19980526104900.A1032@emsphone.com>
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On Tue, 26 May 1998, Dan Nelson wrote: > When you say "killing the parent doesn't work", do you mean that > killing the parent did NOT remove the child's pid, or you couldn't even > kill the parent at all? What does a 'ps axl' print for the processes? I could not kill the parent at all. bash$ ps -axl | grep 4994 10 4994 4803 0 -6 0 0 0 - Z+ v0- 0:00.00 (tail) And also: bash$ ps -t /dev/ttyv0 PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND 4803 v0- IEs+ 0:00.00 (sh) 4994 v0- Z+ 0:00.00 (tail) See? Here, the sh process will not exit, because of the zombie. It is trying to exit, but can't. Regards, d. +-------------------------------------------------------+ | Dean Hollister, | dean@odyssey.apana.org.au | | Perth, Western Australia. | deanh@iinet.net.au | +-------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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