From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: unkillable zombies from using gdb and kernel 2.4.15 and higher? From: Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= To: Gabriel Paubert Cc: Kevin Hendricks , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 10 Dec 2001 21:55:41 +0100 Message-Id: <1008017741.17478.34.camel@pismo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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 ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/