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Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 21:24:44 +0100
From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
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Subject: Re: unkillable zombies from using gdb and kernel 2.4.15 and higher?
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Hi,

"Michel Dänzer" wrote:

> 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, which should take care of them.

bye, Roman

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