Hi Can any one tell me How to kill a Zombie / Defunct process . I searched a lot in net what I found was that a Zombie process cannot be killed .
can a defunct process be killed . Help needed . Rahul -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org/attachments/20041122/82caeac1/attachment.htm From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Nov 22 17:29:04 2004 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (justin joseph) Date: Mon Nov 22 17:29:18 2004 Subject: [Mailinglist] Kill Zombie process Help In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "A zombie process doesn't react to signals because it's not really a process at all- it's just what's left over after it DIED. What's supposed to happen is that its parent process was to issue a "wait()" to collect the information about its exit. If the parent doesn't (programming error or just bad programming), you get a zombie. The zombie will go away if it's parent dies- it will be "adopted" by init which will do the wait()- so if you see one hanging about, check its parent; if it is init, it will be gone soon, if not the only recourse is to kill the parent..which you may or may not want to do." --- Rahul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > Can any one tell me How to kill a Zombie / Defunct > process . I searched a lot in net what I found was > that a Zombie process cannot be killed . > > can a defunct process be killed . Help needed . > Rahul > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailinglist mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
