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