Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Nov 2004 22:11:38 +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 you are talking about others' children, then your call to > >waitpid() (or wait()) failed with ECHILD: not your child. > That's what happened when I tried it a few months ago. I suppose one > could try sending a SIGCHLD to the parent and see if it does something > helpful.
Probably it won't do. If the zombies are there due to a signal delivery problem, sending a SIGCHLD to the parent will (probably) solve the problem. But the common case is that the parent is screwed up or simply so badly programmed that the only way of getting rid of the zombies is to kill the parent...
Anyway I suppose that sending the SIGCHLD won't do any harm so it may be worth trying.
Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado
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