Ed Greshko wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: >> Ed Greshko wrote: >>> Simon Slater wrote: >>> >>>> A quick question for someone: a process running as root can't be >>>> killed >>>> by kill PID. How do I kill it? >>> >>> Do a "ps PID".... If the STAT shows "Z" it means the process is a >>> zombie. >>> And, as we all know, you can't kill a zombie. :-) >> That's because it's already dead. Just nowhere to send >> the death signal. > > I wouldn't quite say it that way. There is a place to send the signal, the > PID, it is just that the process isn't listening. It is waiting on something. > So I'm curious now, if the kernel know the process is zombie, why doesnt it deallocate it, or remove it from the ps list? -- Michael Yep Development / Technical Operations RemoteLink, Inc. 800-362-9446 x164
