Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:30:46 +0800 From: David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org> To: David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/72979: unkillable process(es) stuck in `STOP' state Message-ID: <437464C6.9070404@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200511110920.jAB9KIWr009848@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200511110920.jAB9KIWr009848@freefall.freebsd.org>
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David Xu wrote: > 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 > Cc: > 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 > > Sorry, I am obviously reading some out-of-date text, please ignore it.
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