Messages in this thread | | | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot? | Date | Wed, 3 Nov 2004 14:24:23 -0500 |
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On Wednesday 03 November 2004 14:03, Måns Rullgård wrote: >Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> writes: >> On Wednesday 03 November 2004 12:44, DervishD wrote: >>> Hi Gene :) >>> >>> * Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> dixit: >>>> > 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. >>>> >>>> But what if there is no parent, since the system has already >>>> disposed of it? >>> >>> Then the children are reparented to 'init' and 'init' gets rid >>> of them. That's the way UNIX behaves. >> >> Unforch, I've *never* had it work that way. Any dead process I've >> ever had while running linux has only been disposable by a reboot. > >That's because its parent was still sitting around refusing to > wait() for them.
Define 'parent' when it was a click on the apps icon on the xwindow screen that started it, please.
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