Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Nov 2004 17:18:57 -0600 (CST) | From | Adam Heath <> | Subject | Re: is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot? |
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On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, DervishD wrote:
> Hi all :) > > * Måns Rullgård <mru@inprovide.com> 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.
ptrace the parent, cause it to wait() for it's children, then change IP, etc.
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