Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Nov 2004 16:25:31 +0100 | From | DervishD <> | Subject | Re: is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot? |
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Hi all :)
* Måns Rullgård <mru@inprovide.com> dixit: > >> I'd tried to kill the zombie earlier but couldn't. > >> Isn't there some way to clean up a &^$#^#@)_ zombie? > > Kill the parent, is the only (portable) way. > Perhaps not as portable, but another possible, though slightly > complicated, way is to ptrace the parent and force it to wait().
Or write a little program that just 'wait()'s for the specified PID's. That is perfectly portable IMHO. But I must admit that the preferred way should be killing the parent. 'init' will reap the children after that.
Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado
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