Re: Zombie processes
David Schwartz (davids@webmaster.com)
Wed, 11 Feb 1998 00:18:51 -0500
>problem). And if you didn't write the program that generated them (and
>hence can't fix it to call wait()), then usually your zombie processes
>will hang around until you reboot. They're annoying, but that's about
>it.
Actually, you can keep killing their parents until init inherits them.
If init won't reap zombies, you had better reboot.
DS
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