On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 11:32:56AM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
"kill" will also not kill zombies ("Z" state).
You must kill their
parent processes first and the zombies will disappear of their own
accord.
Because, of course, the zombies are already dead -- there's no process
there, just a process ID that hasn't been released.
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