Options to stop processes that can't be killed -9 other than reboot

[Josh Miller]

On 09/14/2011 03:37 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
...
> Then it is not a zombie. Zombies are exited processes which still have their
> parent, but the parent has not (yet) collected their exit status.
...

 From the 'ps' man page:

"Processes marked <defunct> are dead processes (so-called "zombies") 
that remain because their parent has not destroyed them properly. These 
processes will be destroyed by init(8) if the parent process exits."

In my experience, zombie processes have a parent process ID of 1 (init) 
by the time I discover them.


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Josh Miller
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