850181p@aucs.UUCP (STEVEN E. PARKER) (01/16/89)
I can't seem to kill a process that is stuck in the <exiting>
status. I tried sure kills etc. nothing seems to work. Any ideas would
be helpful. Please e-mail.
Thanks in advance.
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Steven E. Parker Acadia Univ. School of Computer Science
Wolfville N.S. Canada BOP1XO
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-----------------------------------------------------------rock@cbnews.ATT.COM (Y. Rock Lee) (01/17/89)
In article <1496@aucs.UUCP> 850181p@aucs.UUCP (STEVEN E. PARKER) writes: > > I can't seem to kill a process that is stuck in the <exiting> >status. I tried sure kills etc. nothing seems to work. Any ideas would >be helpful. Please e-mail. The <exiting> process is already dead; you can't kill a zombie process. In system V UNIX, a zombie process will be removed from the process table if its parent does a wait(), or set to ignore "death of child" signals, or when the parent itself does an exit(). ------------------------------------- Y. Rock Lee (614) 860-4774 AT&T Bell Labs. Columbus, Ohio UUCP: att!cblpe!rock ARPANET/INTERNET: rock@cbnews.ATT.COM