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From: Mitchell_B._Erblich.ESAE@xerox.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: 3b2 Unkillable Processes
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Date: 15 Jun 90 18:06:00 GMT
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Have you tried killing the parent/grandparent process with a kill -9.  A
process that is a zombie can not be killed because it doesn't wake up to
kill itself and I am assuming (correctly/incorrectly) that the process is
becoming a zombie.