Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 14:18:39 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> To: Alwyn Schoeman <alwyns@littlecruncher.prizm.dhs.org> Cc: "FoxChat.Net" <Zapper@FoxChat.Net>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Killing Zombies. Message-ID: <20000106141839.N31198@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> In-Reply-To: <20000106140935.J8865@littlecruncher.prizm.dhs.org>; from Alwyn Schoeman on Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 02:09:39PM %2B0200 References: <386EEDF0.A367E24E@FoxChat.Net> <20000106140935.J8865@littlecruncher.prizm.dhs.org>
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On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 02:09:39PM +0200, Alwyn Schoeman wrote: > On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 12:19:29AM -0600, FoxChat.Net wrote: > > How does one kill a "zombie" process? > > You don't. Zombie processes aren't really processes, they're just hanging > around in the process table until something happens, what precisely I've for- > gotten. > See wait(2), sigaction(2). -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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