Re: is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot?

[Måns Rullgård]

DervishD <lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>     Hi all :)
>
>  * Måns Rullgård <mru@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> dixit:
>> >> I'd tried to kill the zombie earlier but couldn't.
>> >> Isn't there some way to clean up a &^$#^#@)_ zombie?
>> > Kill the parent, is the only (portable) way.
>> Perhaps not as portable, but another possible, though slightly
>> complicated, way is to ptrace the parent and force it to wait().
>
>     Or write a little program that just 'wait()'s for the specified
> PID's. That is perfectly portable IMHO. But I must admit that the
> preferred way should be killing the parent. 'init' will reap the
> children after that.

You can only wait() for your own children.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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