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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat How to get rid of zombie process? Post 302817177 by alister on Wednesday 5th of June 2013 10:31:36 AM
Old 06-05-2013
If you killed the parent and it has exited, and if the zombie process is still hanging around, then it is not a zombie process (which wouldn't suprse me because "zombie" is an often misused term).

Provide two reports of the "zombie" processes and their parents, one before and one after killing a parent, using a ps format which at the very least includes uid, pid, ppid, and stat. Also, include the output of the id command when run by the same user that kills the parent.

Regards,
Alister

Last edited by alister; 06-05-2013 at 11:38 AM..
 

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XSaveContext(3) 						  XLIB FUNCTIONS						   XSaveContext(3)

NAME
XSaveContext, XFindContext, XDeleteContext, XUniqueContext - associative look-up routines SYNTAX
int XSaveContext(Display *display, XID rid, XContext context, XPointer data); int XFindContext(Display *display, XID rid, XContext context, XPointer *data_return); int XDeleteContext(Display *display, XID rid, XContext context); XContext XUniqueContext(void); ARGUMENTS
context Specifies the context type to which the data belongs. data Specifies the data to be associated with the window and type. data_return Returns the data. display Specifies the connection to the X server. rid Specifies the resource ID with which the data is associated. DESCRIPTION
If an entry with the specified resource ID and type already exists, XSaveContext overrides it with the specified context. The XSaveContext function returns a nonzero error code if an error has occurred and zero otherwise. Possible errors are XCNOMEM (out of memory). Because it is a return value, the data is a pointer. The XFindContext function returns a nonzero error code if an error has occurred and zero otherwise. Possible errors are XCNOENT (context-not-found). The XDeleteContext function deletes the entry for the given resource ID and type from the data structure. This function returns the same error codes that XFindContext returns if called with the same arguments. XDeleteContext does not free the data whose address was saved. The XUniqueContext function creates a unique context type that may be used in subsequent calls to XSaveContext. SEE ALSO
Xlib - C Language X Interface X Version 11 libX11 1.5.0 XSaveContext(3)
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