From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
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Subject: Re: is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot?
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 13:53:39 -0500
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On Wednesday 03 November 2004 12:44, DervishD wrote:
>    Hi Gene :)
>
> * Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> dixit:
>> >    Or write a little program that just 'wait()'s for the
>> > specified PID's. That is perfectly portable IMHO. But I must
>> > admit that the preferred way should be killing the parent.
>> > 'init' will reap the children after that.
>>
>> But what if there is no parent, since the system has already
>> disposed of it?
>
>    Then the children are reparented to 'init' and 'init' gets rid
> of them. That's the way UNIX behaves.

Unforch, I've *never* had it work that way.  Any dead process I've 
ever had while running linux has only been disposable by a reboot.

>    Ra?l N??ez de Arenas Coronado

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