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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Help! Zombies Post 302859743 by Don Cragun on Thursday 3rd of October 2013 04:39:16 PM

10-03-2013

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Quote:

Originally Posted by alister

You can't kill that which is already dead.

Regards,
Alister

Actually, you can kill zombies; they just won't notice that they've been killed (again).

Code:

kill 0 pid_of_zombie

will complete successfully telling you that the zombie hasn't been reaped yet.

Code:

kill TERM pid_of_zombie

will send a SIGTERM signal to the zombie and will complete successfully (assuming you have permission to send a signal to that process), but the zombie will never notice that the signal was sent nor be able to act upon that signal.

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