17 Jan
2005
17 Jan
'05
7:25 a.m.
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:33:08 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@thenilgiris.com wrote:
true - doesnt kill the zombie, but allows you to run the process again. How *do* you kill a zombie?
It is not possible to kill a zombie. Because a zombie is already dead. It is only hanging around as the parent process has not called wait() or any of it's variants on it. So all the memory and flile descriptors are closed by the kernel but the process table entry remains.
:) cheers Vinayak