[Gllug] Killing processes on Solaris [OTish]

[Nix]

On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Jonathan Dye stipulated:
> I remember having a problem with zombie process processes in FreeBSD once.
> We couldn't kill them either and had to reboot.

Zombies are already dead and canot be killed.

>                                                  We eventually worked out
> that a process was spawning child processes and then ignoring SIG_CHILD

ITYM `SIGCHLD'.

> messages which ment that when the children died they stuck there as

It also wasn't wait()ing for them. Oops.

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