Re: zombies (was Re: What does a task with priority -1 mean?)

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From: Paul S. Sears
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:33

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In article <10NOV199210153953@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov> silbar@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov  
(Dick Silbar) writes:
=>In article <1992Nov10.152955.21859@menudo.uh.edu>, sears@tree.egr.uh.edu  
writes...
=>#Btw, the zombies can not be "killed" (even will kill -9).  Don't even  
bother  
=>#to attempt it.  But if you do, be prepared to reboot from a panic :-)
=>
=>Interesting.  So why is it that Project Builder creates a NEW terminal.app
=>window EVERY time you click on "debug"?  (I do that a lot.)
=>
=>Do they disappear when you log out?  Or, do you have to reboot?
=>
=>      Dick Silbar (NeXTMail:silbar@whistler.lanl.gov)

Zombies stick around until a crash or reboot.  Logging out will not "clean"  
the system of any zombied processes...
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