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

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 03 November 2004 14:03, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> On Wednesday 03 November 2004 12:44, DervishD wrote:
>>>    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.
>>
>> Unforch, I've *never* had it work that way.  Any dead process I've
>> ever had while running linux has only been disposable by a reboot.
>
>That's because its parent was still sitting around refusing to
> wait() for them.

Define 'parent' when it was a click on the apps icon on the xwindow 
screen that started it, please.

-- 
Cheers, gene
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