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

[Doug McNaught]

Gene Heskett <gheskett@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Wednesday 03 November 2004 14:03, Måns Rullgård wrote:

>>
>>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.

Whichever process called fork() to create the app process is the
parent.  Sounds like it's some component of the desktop environment. 

-Doug
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