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From: David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: kern/72979: unkillable process(es) stuck in `STOP' state
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The following reply was made to PR kern/72979; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>
To: bug-followup@freebsd.org, mi@aldan.algebra.com
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Subject: Re: kern/72979: unkillable process(es) stuck in `STOP' state
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:10:33 +0800

 You should find and kill zoombie process's parent process, if the parent 
 process is also a zoombie, you should find its grandfather, ...
 it is a UNIX behavior that you can not kill a zoombie process, but
 should kill its ancestor. I would think that you have encoutered
 some buggy programs which forgot to recycle its children.
 
 David Xu