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From: rock@cbnews.ATT.COM (Y. Rock Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: HELP RE: "<exiting>" processes
Message-ID: <3156@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 16 Jan 89 18:47:12 GMT
References: <1496@aucs.UUCP>
Reply-To: rock@cbnews.ATT.COM (Y. Rock Lee)
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In article <1496@aucs.UUCP> 850181p@aucs.UUCP (STEVEN E. PARKER) writes:
>
>	I can't seem to kill a process that is stuck in the <exiting>
>status. I tried sure kills etc. nothing seems to work. Any ideas would
>be helpful. Please e-mail. 

The <exiting> process is already dead; you can't kill a zombie process.
In system V UNIX, a zombie process will be removed from the process table
if its parent does a wait(), or set to ignore "death of child" signals,
or when the parent itself does an exit().

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