From: "Michel Dänzer" <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch>
To: Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es>
Cc: Kevin Hendricks <khendricks@ivey.uwo.ca>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: unkillable zombies from using gdb and kernel 2.4.15 and higher?
Date: 10 Dec 2001 21:55:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1008017741.17478.34.camel@pismo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112102117570.24633-100000@gra-lx1.iram.es>
On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 21:20, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
>
>
> On 10 Dec 2001, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote:
>
> >
> > On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 15:11, Kevin Hendricks wrote:
> >
> > > So these zombies are ignoring kill -9 signals which I thought was a big
> > > no-no?
> >
> > Zombies are dead, they don't get more dead if you kill them. ;)
> >
> > AFAIR zombies have died but are waiting for their return value to be
> > read out of the process table. I'd like to know myself how that can
> > happen when their parents are gone...
>
> They are reparented to init. One of init tasks is to reap all
> processes who lose their parents.
So how often does it do that? Can it be beaten into submission? :)
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-10 20:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-10 14:11 unkillable zombies from using gdb and kernel 2.4.15 and higher? Kevin Hendricks
2001-12-10 19:39 ` Michel Dänzer
2001-12-10 20:20 ` Gabriel Paubert
2001-12-10 20:55 ` Michel Dänzer [this message]
2001-12-10 23:35 ` Gabriel Paubert
2001-12-10 20:24 ` Roman Zippel
2001-12-10 20:31 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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