Denis Havlik wrote:
> This is a funny thing. But it gets even funnier - At my computer, it is
> the Netscape which does it:
>
> 25879 ? S 0:01 /usr/i386-glibc20-linux/lib/ld-linux.so.2 --library-path
> /usr/i386-glibc20-linux/lib /usr/lib/netscape/ne
> 25893 ? Z 0:00 \_[netscape <defunct>]
> 25894 ? S 0:00 \_ (dns helper)
>
> Now, the best part is: Netscape is not defunct! It works OK at the moment,
> but the system thinks it is "defunct". Look at this:
>
> [denis@marvin havlik]$ killall -9 25893
> 25893: no process killed
>
> "ps axwf" shows exactly the same process running as "defunct", yet I can
> go on browsing with the netscape as if nothing happened. Now, this is what
> I call weird.
killall x : x must be a process NAME : here killall -9 netscape
kill x : x must be a process NUMBER : here kill -9 25893
killall -9 25893 means that you want to kill a process named 25893. No
process has this name!
