Ariz Jacinto said: > how to kill zombie processes w/o rebooting? > > > > -- > Ariz C. Jacinto, ECE > Systems Operations > SPI Technologies-PS
well, in most casses you cant, zombie processes are created when the parent process spawns(using fork()) itself to another child process, then when the child process dies it waits for the parent to issue the wait() syscall, until it receives the wait() syscall it remains into zombie status(correct me if im wrong). Parents failing to issue wait() syscalls are usually due to bugs in the program itself. Usually zombie process are harmless, unless when it is messing up with other process. -- "good artists borrow; great artists steal." --Steve Jobs Marc Henry Galang Adventist University of the Philippines BSCS Web references: winmarctechnologies.com.ph, Google => "Marc Henry Galang". MD5 Signature = 904a13d379c58ec8ea964bbbf0a5e55c -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
