Why doesn't kill work?

[James McKenzie]

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.

-- 
James McKenzie
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