Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 15:25:04 -0500 From: Ron Steele <ron@dc.infi.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: * searching a good priest for zombies processes * Message-ID: <3311F920.296B@dc.infi.net> References: <199702241844.LAA27761@fluffy.aros.net>
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Dave Andersen wrote: > > This is almost certainly a bug in the program you're running. > You can, however, clear up the zombies by killing off the parent process. > This will cause init to take over the child processes, and it > will reap them (ask "Hey, give me that info"). > > I haven't heard of the software you're using - sorry - but I'd > suggest contacting the author(s) about it. It's possible that they're > missing some race condition in 2.2 that they used to hit, or something. > > -Dave Andersen What I have never understood is why/how processes owned by init (ppid=1) can be zombies. I have seen this is on HP-UX, old SunOS, and earlier versions of FreeBSD. Shouldn't init clean up the zombies? Ron Steele
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