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

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 15Sep2011 07:59, mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> | Cameron Simpson wrote:
> | >On 14Sep2011 15:45, Josh Miller <joshua at itsecureadmin.com> wrote:
> | >| On 09/14/2011 03:37 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> | >| >Then it is not a zombie. Zombies are exited processes which still
<snip>
> | >with process 1 as your parent is at best a very very transient thing,
> | >since init collects all its children almost instantly; indeed, aside
> | >from mediating runlevels this is init's major function.
> | <snip>
> | Well, no. When I see zombies, they've already gone to a parent
> | process of 1, and they are *not* transient: if they go away, it's a
> | long time - we're talking hours or days; more often, it takes a
> | reboot.
>
> Please: show me a cut/paste of a real world ps of this. I really want to
> see it.

Sure... next time I get one. I don't exactly create them.

         mark