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From: Seva Gluschenko <gvs@rinet.ru>
Subject: Re: kern/71226: processes list is broken
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The following reply was made to PR kern/71226; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Seva Gluschenko <gvs@rinet.ru>
To: Maxim Konovalov <maxim@macomnet.ru>
Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/71226: processes list is broken
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 12:29:42 +0400

 Maxim Konovalov wrote:
 
 >> >>>ps ax | grep kblan
 >> >>
 >> >> 1028  ??  RN     0:00,13 /usr/local/bin/kblankscrn.kss -root
 >> []
 >> > Are theese zombies in fact? You should try to kill their parent (see man
 >> > waitpid for details). You can determine parent PID of process by issuing
 >> > following command:
 >> >
 >> > # ps jax|fgrep kblankscrn.kss|fgrep -v fgrep|awk '{print $3}'
 >>
 >> Yep, they're in fact zombies, but I have no much interest to kill their
 >> parent:
 > 
 > 
 > And what do you expect from FreeBSD?
 
 I can't understand your question here. Did you notice the parent, 
 /sbin/init? Isn't the job of init to finish zombies? The process isn't 
 actually running, ktrace produces zero lentgh file - but somewhere in 
 kernel (?) it is considered running - why? If it is kblanscrn.kss who 
 sucks, why it doesn't even do NOOP?
 
 > 
 > 
 >>  > ps jaxp 775
 >> USER   PID  PPID  PGID   SID JOBC STAT  TT       TIME COMMAND
 >> gvs    775     1   613   613    0 RN    ??    0:00,00
 >> /usr/local/bin/kblankscrn.kss -root
 > 
 >