My understanding is that defunct processes are zombies, and can't be cleaned up with a reboot.
--- Douglas J Hunley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a process or two that are listed as <defunct> and are owned by > init. > It was my understanding that these types of processes would get init > as their > parent, and periodically init would scan its children and remove the > defunct > ones. These processes seem to be hanging around. They don't respond to > kill > signals at all (I sent kill -$i where i was 1-15) and they are still > there. > Can I signal init to tell it to cleanup its children? ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
