On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Pong wrote:

> well a zombie in linux is a process whose process space (code/data)
> are already gone but still has an entry in the process table in kernel.

Hmm... Can zombies prevent a program from launching again? 

In my experience. many times OpenOffice won't load because of what seems 
to be a zombie OpenOffice process is still listed by ps aux. Killing it 
usually solves the problem. Is this the same case, or is this something 
else?

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