Re: is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot?

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 03 November 2004 09:49, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>bert hubert <ahu@xxxxxxx> writes:
>> On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 07:51:39AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> But I'd tried to run gnomeradio earlier to listen to the
>>> elections,
>>
>> Depressing enough.
>>
>>> I'd tried to kill the zombie earlier but couldn't.
>>> Isn't there some way to clean up a &^$#^#@)_ zombie?
>>
>> Kill the parent, is the only (portable) way.
>
>Perhaps not as portable, but another possible, though slightly
>complicated, way is to ptrace the parent and force it to wait().

No deal.  No way.  The user needs something to clean up when he clicks 
on an icon, and things go to hell in a handbasket.  He has no advance 
warning available to him to tell him he had better ptrace this one 
that I'm aware of.

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