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From: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Trouble killing processes in SysV/AT
Message-ID: <81@dcs.UUCP>
Date: 8 May 88 10:58:22 GMT
References: <3950@killer.UUCP> <3951@killer.UUCP>  <216@obie.UUCP>
Reply-To: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Organization: DCS, Dallas, Texas
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In article <216@obie.UUCP> wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) writes:
 >In article , hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes:
 >| 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".)
 >
 >The canonical term for such a process is "zombie."

I always thought that "zombies" refers to dead processes which have not
been waited for, rather than processes which refuse to die ?!?
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