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

[DervishD]

    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.

    Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado

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