Immortal Processes

[Qamgine]

I was debugging a modem with cu and the process hung. I have tried killing the process using -9 -3 -2 with no luck. I think it's immortal. Anyway to kill this process w/o reboot? Thanks in advance.

 

[crowe]

not really. kill -9 is the big hammer. You might get lucky if you kill the parent process, but usually this orphans the process to "1" (init).

crowe

 

[unixqueen]

If these are defunct processes, then I imagine that the parent has already died/been killed, the problem is that the child is waiting for a signal from the parent which it will never receive and will wait indefinately, the only way to clear it is to reboot.

Clare

 

[MikeLacey]

I reckon that it might have hung on the port and not be a zombie at all. Not that it matters, you still have to reboot to get rid of it.... Mike
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