Re: [plug] how to kill zombie processes w/o rebooting?

[Brian Baquiran]

Pong wrote:
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Ariz Jacinto wrote:

how to kill zombie processes w/o rebooting?
trace it's parent process and kill it?
tried it before but it wasnt enough.
trace upto the super parent process surely being one level below 'init'.
Er, you mean the kernel? Of course rebooting would clear out the process table.

init IS the first process started by the kernel. Everything else is started by init.

Brian

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