Messages in this thread | | | From | Måns Rullgård <> | Subject | Re: is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot? | Date | Wed, 03 Nov 2004 20:56:27 +0100 |
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linux-os <linux-os@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
> The fix is to fix the code. Your temporary fix is to use > Ctrl-Alt-backspace to kill the X11 server (the parent).
The X server is not the parent. The desktop manager (or whatever those beasts are called) is more likely to be.
> All these little windows and icons are the 'children' of the X > server.
The X server manages a set of windows, arranged in a logical tree structure, with all windows ultimately descending from the root windows. The parent-child relationships between windows should under no circumstance be confused, or compared, with that between processes. Any process, on any machine on the network, can, given enough privileges, create subwindows of any window on the X server. Windows and process belong to different worlds, the only connection between which is that processes create windows, simply since anything that happens in the computer is done by a process (or interrupt handler).
Am I really reading this on linux-kernel?
-- Måns Rullgård mru@inprovide.com
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