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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 19:07:16 +0200
From: DervishD <raul@pleyades.net>
To: Marc Giger <gigerstyle@gmx.ch>
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Subject: Re: dead processes
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    Hi Marc :)

>  4260 ?        Z      0:00 [gpg <defunct>]
> There are a lot of defunct processes which I can't kill.
> How comes? Normal? Solution?

    They are 'Zombie' processes. At some point they will be
reparented to 'init' and it will get rid of them. Those processes are
dead but nobody has 'wait()'ed for them. 'init' will do ASAP. The
problem is if they aren't reparented to init.

    Ra?l
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