Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!micor!latour!ottsun1!pickles
From: pickles@ottsun1.uucp (Clive Pickles)
Subject: Re: Zombie processes
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.140705.847@ottsun1.uucp>
Sender: pickles@mpr.ca (Clive Pickles)
Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd., Ottawa, ON, Canada
References: <1991Jun19.103710.3404@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 91 14:07:05 GMT

In article <1991Jun19.103710.3404@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au> epidem@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au writes:
>Can anyone tell us  how to kill a ZOMBIE <EXITING> process under
>SunOS 4.0.3.
>
>Charley Chow

Whenever we get an <EXITING> process (usually involving hung modem lines), I
just put a trace on that process' pid.  The trace connects to the process,
and then the process instantly finishes exiting.  The process is now
gone.  This has always worked for me, but other people have told me that
it often doesn't work for them.  All you can do is try.  I am running 
under SunOS 4.0.3 also.

Hope this helps.

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