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- From: dbrillha@dave.mis.semi.harris.com (Dave Brillhart)
- Subject: Re: kill <exiting> processes
- References: <Aug18.031258.52832@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 13:28:19 GMT
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- Reply-To: dbrillha@dave.mis.semi.harris.com (Dave Brillhart)
- Organization: Harris Semiconductor
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- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.132819.23117@mlb.semi.harris.com>
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- >>Does anyone know how to kill off "easily that is" these
- >>kinds of processes short of rebooting the machine. They
- >>are on a decstation 5000 and have been there for days.
- >>I have tried kill -9 (process id) but that does work
-
- <exiting> processes are simply waiting for their parent to
- reap them. One way to release their souls (remove the zombie)
- is to kill their parents - the OS then reappoints PID 1
- as the zombie's parent. INIT (pid 1) will quickly reap the
- zombie processes.
-
- For some reason, the original parent ignored the SIGCHLD signals
- that alereted it that it's children died. You might want to check
- the code if you have it.
-
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