how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

[Tony Pursell]

On Sun, 2010-11-21 at 10:07 -0800, Jeff G. wrote:
> On 11/21/2010 04:02 AM, Tha.Suresh wrote:
> >> Is there a way to kill that process?
> >
> > $ killall -9 transmission
> >
> >
> >
> Tha, man pages don't show the -9 option - where did that come from?
> Doesn't work for Thunderbird (as a test).
> 

man kill *does* show 9 as the kill signal that cannot be interrupted.

Tony