On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:36:32 -0700, Steve Comstock <[email protected]> wrote:
> >Intersting point, Mark. Can you define / distinguish the characteristics >of orphans vs. zombies? > It is the same definition as any other *nix platform. I don't really like using Wikipedia as a reference, but that was the first thing that came up in a search for me (it also describes orphans): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_process Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[email protected] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
