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Date:      Tue, 26 May 1998 21:15:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Killing zombie processes
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980526211517.13318G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980526200613.20421A-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au>

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On Tue, 26 May 1998, Dean Hollister wrote:

> I have another occurance of these Zombies causing bash processes not to
> exit. I cannot kill the zombie, and killing the parent doesn't work. A
> couple people did have some other suggestions, any ideas?

Fix the offending program that zombie-ing.  Add a wait() call just before
it exits to reap the children.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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