Why doesn't kill work?
James McKenzie
jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Mon Feb 21 15:40:25 UTC 2005
Deron Meranda wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 23:46:56 -0500, Scot L. Harris <webid at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
>
>>So if the parent process crashes all of the child processes will be
>>cleared?
>
>
> When a parent process dies, all of it's children (whether currently
> running or if they're zombies), are "inherited" by the main init
> process, always process ID 1. And init will always immediately reap
> any zombies. (Init is really a fake process which serves as the
> process-face to the kernel itself.) So in effect, if the parent process
> of a zombie dies, then the zombies will immediately be reaped and
> disappear almost immediately.
>
So is this a bug in Firefox?
> james 17993 17988 5 08:13 ? 00:01:19 /usr/lib/firefox-1.0/firefox-bin -UILocale en-US
> james 18003 17993 0 08:14 ? 00:00:00 [netstat] <defunct>
If so, I will look for a bug entry at Bugzilla.
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James McKenzie
With assistance, Now running 2.6.11rc3, Software Suspend 2
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