Messages in this thread | | | From | Måns Rullgård <> | Subject | Re: is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot? | Date | Wed, 03 Nov 2004 15:49:06 +0100 |
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bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl> writes:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 07:51:39AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> But I'd tried to run gnomeradio earlier to listen to the elections, > > Depressing enough. > >> 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().
-- Måns Rullgård mru@inprovide.com
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