Dead Processes

[Claudio Rocha]

Hi everybody,

I have problem with Dead Processes ... using who -a I'm able to see the
dead processes, but I cannot kill them. Is there any command to kill dead
processes? Even dead they are blocking the tty.....

***When I try to kill them I reveive processes No such process

Thanks
Claudio

[no one]

Are we talking about defunct processes?

A defunct process is one that aborted while it was in a system call or
blocking i/o state. The OS call has no place to return to so it stays in
the process table and is marked as <defunct>. "Sometimes" you can kill
them by killing their parent process. Other times, the only way to clean
the process table is a reboot.

-Wiseguy

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[Chris]

Hi,

with the comman truss PID parent process you can find out more about the system
call and maybe the programmers can improve this process

cheering
chrisu

[Uwe Wolfram]

Hi Claudio!

CR> I have problem with Dead Processes ... using who -a I'm able to
see
CR> the dead processes, but I cannot kill them. Is there any command
to
CR> kill dead processes? Even dead they are blocking the tty.....

What do you mean with dead processes?
Defunct/zombies? In that case only a reboot helps.
Zombies just waste space in the process table.

Uwe