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- From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
- Subject: Re: zombies (was Re: What does a task with priority -1 mean?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.183316.6169@menudo.uh.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:33:16 GMT
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- In article <10NOV199210153953@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov> silbar@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov
- (Dick Silbar) writes:
- =>In article <1992Nov10.152955.21859@menudo.uh.edu>, sears@tree.egr.uh.edu
- writes...
- =>#Btw, the zombies can not be "killed" (even will kill -9). Don't even
- bother
- =>#to attempt it. But if you do, be prepared to reboot from a panic :-)
- =>
- =>Interesting. So why is it that Project Builder creates a NEW terminal.app
- =>window EVERY time you click on "debug"? (I do that a lot.)
- =>
- =>Do they disappear when you log out? Or, do you have to reboot?
- =>
- => Dick Silbar (NeXTMail:silbar@whistler.lanl.gov)
-
- Zombies stick around until a crash or reboot. Logging out will not "clean"
- the system of any zombied processes...
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