Re: Unkillable process under 2.1.131

christophe.leroy5@capway.com
Tue, 8 Dec 1998 09:12:28 +0100

Yes, I think you are missing something:
Your process is killed !!!
It it a zombie, meaning that the process that has forked it still
exists but hasn't noticed that its child is dead.
As soon as the father has noticed that its child has died, your
process will deseapear from ps list

christophe leroy

> From: Michael K Vance <mkv102@psu.edu>
> Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 10:02:18 -0500
> Subject: Unkillable process under 2.1.131
>
> Hello,
>
> I have an unkillable process. 'ps au':
>
> root 221 0.0 0.0 0 0 1 Z 08:38 0:00 (xscreensaver
> <zombie>)
>
> Attempts to 'kill 221' and 'kill -9 221' have failed. Am I missing something
> here?
>
> Regards,
>
> m.
>

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