Zombie Program

[Kelvin Chu]

Also, if you kill the parent process, wouldn't init just take ownership of
the zombie process?

On 4/16/07, Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 20:36 +0800, Christopher Lees wrote:
> > If you see a zombie program listed in top, and it's using resources,
> > you
> > can kill it by typing the following:
> >
> > k
> > The PID number of the zombie (the first column)
> > 9
> >
> No, you can't actually :)
>
> You *cannot kill a zombie process*
>
> If its parent process is still alive, you can kill that - but by
> definition, even a SIGKILL ( kill -9 ) will not kill a zombie
>
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