From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 6 12:56:17 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 6 12:56:15 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cheshire.manunkind.org (cheshire.manunkind.org [216.254.114.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2D0837B400 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 12:56:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ryan@localhost) by cheshire.manunkind.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eB6L21p19921; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 16:02:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ryan) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 16:02:00 -0500 From: Ryan Younce To: Corey Brune Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Process wont be killed. Message-ID: <20001206160200.A19885@cheshire.manunkind.org> References: <200012061656.eB6Gu1K12489@sdf.lonestar.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200012061656.eB6Gu1K12489@sdf.lonestar.org>; from brune@sdf.lonestar.org on Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 04:56:01PM +0000 Sender: ryan@cheshire.manunkind.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake Corey Brune : > Your process is trying to exit. Try killing the child (pid 27200) first- this will eliminate > possible zombies, and then check if the parent had died. A process cannot be "trying" to exit with a kill -KILL like he had sent, regardless of the number of child processes or the state of the child processes. There's something else going on if it is a system issue at all. Also, how will killing a child process possibly -eliminate- zombies, unless the child itself is a parent to a zombie process? -- Ryan Cheshire Younce | "This option may be useful if file system changes have ryan @ manunkind.org | been made manually or if the processor is on fire." manunkind.org/~ryan/ | --reboot(2), 4.4BSD, on the RB_NOSYNC option flag To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message