On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 10:54:43AM -0800, Net Llama wrote: > > --- Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Net Llama wrote: > > > My understanding is that defunct processes are zombies, and can't be > > > cleaned up with a reboot. > > > > Do you mean can't be cleaned up *without* a reboot? > > Under AIX, defuncts process can only be cleaned up by a reboot, AFAIK. > > Yea, that was a typo. I meant "without" not "with". >
But zombies are just processes that died, but have not been harvested by a 'wait' call. Init does that all the time, so zombies should not be children of init, or at least not for long. They are probably children of some other process which is not doing waits, but will finally die when the parent dies. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman (805) 650-6274 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Permanent e-mail forwarder: mailto:Kevin.O'[EMAIL PROTECTED] At school: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~kogorman/index.html Web: http://kosmanor.com/~kevin/index.html "Life is short; eat dessert first!" _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
