On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 06:09:23PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 05:44:21AM +0800, csj wrote: > | To sum up this discussion: zombies can be killed, but only if you know > | their mothers. Is this correct? Kill the parent process and the zombies > | go away? > > If that is the reason for their existance, yes. > > If the zombie is blocked in a system call (waiting for an interrupt or > something that isn't gonna happen) then no.
...except that condition is an uninterruptible sleep (status 'D' in ps). It's not a zombie (status 'Z'). -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss