On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 10:18:53AM -0800, Net Llama wrote: >My understanding is that defunct processes are zombies, and can't be >cleaned up with a reboot.
Anything can be cleared with a reboot. Zombie processes are generally children that have been forked from a parent process where the child process has quit, but the parent hasn't executed a wait() call to clear it's dead children. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``Nobody wants to be called common people, especially common people.'' Will Rogers _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
