Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Nov 2004 21:53:18 +0100 | From | DervishD <> | Subject | Re: is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot? |
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Hi Bill :)
* Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> dixit: > > If init is the parent, all works ok, just wait a bit and all > >those zombies will really die ;) > Actually the ones in i/o probably won't, since the kernel either missed > the completion or didn't time out if the hardware missed sending the > int. And even plain non-i/o zombies, just how long "a bit" are you > proposing?
A zombie *is already dead*, not stuck in some uninterruptible queue in the kernel, so they will be ripped, sure. My last sentence in the paragraph above may be confusing: when I said 'really die' I meant 'be ripped'?
> Over Thanksgiving weekend I will try to look at the init code and see if > a signal could be used to initiate a forced reap without waiting for the > timer. By "look at" I mean not only "could I do that" but is it a good > thing to do, before someone starts trying to explain that it's going to > do something evil not to wait for the timer...
Don't look: just send SIGCHLD to init. That will do.
Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado
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