[indiana-discuss] zombie process in b93

[Alan Coopersmith]

Amit Kulkarni wrote:
> I noticed a zombie in b91 on this system, a Sun Ultra 40. I ignored it thinking it was some kind of upgrade issue from b90.

Hmm, I don't see that on my Ultra 40 running b93.

> I can't kill it even if I try all sorts of kill i.e kill -s 9 or kill -s HUP

You can't kill a zombie, you have to preap it - but first you should ptree it
to find out which parent process is letting their children become zombies.

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