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From: rjd@occrsh.ATT.COM
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Trouble killing processes in Sy
Message-ID: <142700032@occrsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 2 May 88 21:42:00 GMT
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Nf-From: occrsh.ATT.COM!rjd    May  2 16:42:00 1988


::You ask about processes that refuse to die.  (Calling them "immortal"
::confers a positive aura that is probably undeserved.  Normally these
::processes are in a useless state, and might better be referred to as
::members of the "undead".)

  I think these are normally called "zombie" processes, are they not?

Randy