On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Andy Poling wrote:
>
> You guys are *scaring* me. You don't kill the kernel because of
> mis-behaving processes. Zombie processes are waiting for the parent process
> to reap them (using wait())... or init will when the parent exits.
>
> Kill the problem processes... not the kernel.
Yes, init usually cleans things up, but I know that I have seen a zombie process
that would not die. Unfortunately I don't remember what program that was.
-M@
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