Re: how to kill zombies

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On Sat April 27 2024 10:44:36 William Morder via tde-users wrote:
> Then I searched for these zombies by PID, then tried to remove them with
> kill -9 <PID #>
> ... and nothing happened. According to top, all 17 were still enjoying
> their undead life, and ignored my commands to go away.

Zombies are already dead.  Killing them does nothing.  They will remain
zombies until one of three events:

(1) linux shutdown
(2) parent collects them
(3) parent dies

When the parent dies they are collected by pid 1 instead.
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