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

[DervishD]

    Hi Gene :)

 * Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> dixit:
> >    Or write a little program that just 'wait()'s for the specified
> >PID's. That is perfectly portable IMHO. But I must admit that the
> >preferred way should be killing the parent. 'init' will reap the
> >children after that.
> But what if there is no parent, since the system has already disposed 
> of it?

    Then the children are reparented to 'init' and 'init' gets rid of
them. That's the way UNIX behaves.

    Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado

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