See the thread rooted here:
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 07:51:39 -0500
From: Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot?
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Also, one of the things mentioned in that thread is that whenever a driver is waiting on I/O from a piece of hardware, there should always be some timeout code. Is that the root of the permanent D state? Is it always a process waiting on a piece of hardware that should be eventually timing out, except the timeout code isn't there?
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