On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 13:12:42 -0500 "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?-- Orphaned processes (processes whose parents have died) get owned by init, which then reaps their exit codes and cleans them up neatly. A zombie process is one whose parent did not call wait* on it, so its entry remains in the process table until a reboot. Kurt _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
