Re: strange kill bug ...

[Andrew Atrens <atrens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:

> 
> :> atrens 63627  0.0  0.0     0    0  p7  ZL    6:40PM   0:00.00  (ispell)
> :                                                        ^^^^
> :                                                  Isn't this a Zombie?
> :                                                  Can
> :you kill a Zombie?
> :
> :Erik
> :
> 
>     You can't kill a zombie, because it's already dead!
> 
>     The proc is just waiting to be reaped by its parent.
> 

Cool. I'm a bit surprised that userland 'ps' knows about the zombie, while
kernel ddb does not. It's been a long time since I've had a zombie process
to contend  with - but I seem to remember that the kill command would just
silently exit (without printing an error indication) ... Oh well, more
corruption in long term memory I suppose :) :) :) ...

Andrew.