On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 12:31:17AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> Won't work. <defunct> processes are ones which have died, but the
> kernel is keeping them around in case their parent cares about it's
> return value. AFAIK, it'll hang around, consuming no CPU time but some
> amount of swap, until you reboot.
Or the parent calls waitpid(), or the parent exits...
OP should look at what the "D" means and see why kill is not working...
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