On 20 Jun 2003 17:52:50 +0200
Anders Johansson
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 17:47, Rikard Johnels wrote:
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A recent 'ps x' gave me 6402 ? Z 0:00 [aplay] <defunct>
And a 'kill -9 6402' is ineffective. Can i kill it at all?
You can't kill a zombie, it's already dead (insert sound of Bela Lugosi laughing eerily :)
A zombie is a process which has exited but which still is listed in the process table because it's parent is still running and hasn't cleaned up after it
I havn't tried it, but shouldn't root be able to go into /proc and just delete the directory for the zombie pid? Maybe there is some special way of doing it? Would it take a kernel patch? -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation