Fri, 20 Oct 2006, by gimonroy@gmail.com:
Hi
Does anybody knows how to kill a zombie process? I know that the only way to
Why do you think it's called "zombie"? Ever tried to kill one of them suckers (again)?
kill the zombie process is when you reboot the computer, but if I couldnt do that? what other options does I have?, somebody told me that there is another way and it is sending a signal to the process zombie because it is in a state of wait4(), but I dont know it is true but if it were, how could i do that? because the parent is the init process pid 1..
"Somebody" told you wrong. A zombie is dead already, it just doesn't know it yet. There's no problem with zombie processes in the ps table, they do not eat (resources) or bother (talk to) other processes. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 26N , 4 29 47E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 9.2 + Jabber: muadib@jabber.xs4all.nl Kernel 2.6.8 + See headers for PGP/GPG info. Claimer: any email I receive will become my property. Disclaimers do not apply.