On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 11:32:56AM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> "kill" will also not kill zombies ("Z" state). You must kill their
> parent processes first and the zombies will disappear of their own
> accord.
Because, of course, the zombies are already dead -- there's no process
there, just a process ID that hasn't been released.
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