Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:6915 comp.unix.wizards:8335 comp.unix.microport:609 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!killer!dcs!wnp 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 Lines: 15 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 ?!? -- Wolf N. Paul * 3387 Sam Rayburn Run * Carrollton TX 75007 * (214) 306-9101 UUCP: ihnp4!killer!dcs!wnp ESL: 62832882 INTERNET: wnp@DESEES.DAS.NET or wnp@dcs.UUCP TLX: 910-280-0585 EES PLANO UD