Can't kill a process
Michael Yep
myep at remotelink.com
Fri May 18 18:17:28 UTC 2007
Ed Greshko wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
>> Ed Greshko wrote:
>>> Simon Slater wrote:
>>>
>>>> A quick question for someone: a process running as root can't be
>>>> killed
>>>> by kill PID. How do I kill it?
>>>
>>> Do a "ps PID".... If the STAT shows "Z" it means the process is a
>>> zombie.
>>> And, as we all know, you can't kill a zombie. :-)
>> That's because it's already dead. Just nowhere to send
>> the death signal.
>
> I wouldn't quite say it that way. There is a place to send the signal, the
> PID, it is just that the process isn't listening. It is waiting on something.
>
So I'm curious now, if the kernel know the process is zombie, why doesnt
it deallocate it, or remove it from the ps list?
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Michael Yep
Development / Technical Operations
RemoteLink, Inc.
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