Vinayak Hegde wrote:
It is not possible to kill a zombie. Because a
zombie is already dead.
This leaves us with two possibilities: either a) the original poster's question was self-contradictory and therefore meaningless or b) the original poster did not use the word in this precise technical sense but meant something like "runaway process" or "rogue process", in which case some of the answers given to him here may be relevant.
I am inclined towards b). In either case, it is an interesting problem of semantics!
hi once again i am clear abt my ques???? so i repeat...
i have to kill zombie process which is hanging around in process listing. but i am not able to kill it(means kill 9 23234 is not wrking). i need to do it becoz somewhere its not allowing me to start the same type of application again. and main thing i cannot restart the computer which can remove this process as i am working on main server which cant be stopped for sometime for this. and i think as Amish said (kill -l 1) will work logically. i'll tell you all after some time whether this worked or not.
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