Hi, On Wed, 08 Sep, 1999 à 08:30:35AM -0400, Mark Buda wrote: > >>>>> "Alex" == Alex V Toropov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Alex> In what situation process becomes Zombie ? > > When a process exits, it can return an exit status code to its parent > process. The parent process retrieves this exit status code by > invoking the wait() system call. A zombie process is a process that > has exited, but whose parent hasn't used wait() to get its exit status > code yet. It isn't doing anything, it's just there in the list of > processes, waiting to be wait()ed for, unable to really die until that > happens. > > Eventually, even if the neglectful parent process never wait()s for > it, it will go away, for this reason: When a parent process exits, > init (process id 1) inherits all its child processes. And one of > init's less well-known jobs is wait()ing for orphaned zombie > processes.
Is there a way to determine the neglecting parent of a zombi ? Such as to be able to kill the parent if it's not a necessary program and letting init inherits the zombi process. -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \) Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur ! (/ | \_|_ Seuls ceux qui ne l'utilisent pas en disent du mal. _|_/
