Re: unkillable process ?
Re: unkillable process ?
- Subject: Re: unkillable process ?
- From: Justin Walker <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 22:05:17 -0800
On Saturday, Apr 5, 2003, at 18:01 US/Pacific, Jean-Edouard BABIN wrote:
Justin Walker icrit:
thanks for your information
The existence of a zombie is not that strange; it's unusual, but not
unheard of. This could be a bug. You can file a report
(<http://bugreport.apple.com>) or try to reproduce it and then file a
report.
yes i will do this.
You can determine the parent process's id by something like "ps -oppid
-aux", and the first column of the output will contain the process's
parent's pid.
PPID is 0 ;)
with you command i have just see that i also have
0 root 8000 0.0 0.0 0 0 con- Z 1Jan70
0:00.00
(X11)
(i have used X11 today)
i will try to find why this append, but i think it will be quite
difficult
Why it happens is not that difficult: here, the X11.app process exited,
but the parent (Finder, in all likelihood) did not "wait(2)" for it.
For X11, it is a known bug.
Your earlier case (iTunes) may be the same problem, but it is worth
filing a bug so that Apple can track the problem.
In any case, the occurrence of a Zombie process is a problem for the
parent process, not for the Zombie process.
Regards,
Justin
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