[PLUG] How to kill firefox.bin

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Mon Oct 8 13:31:48 UTC 2007


On Sun, 7 Oct 2007, John Jason Jordan wrote:

> Even if it's a zombie, the owner of the process ought to be able to
> nuke it.

   You've identified the problem here. The process is a zombie because it no
longer has a live owner. It's an orphan process.

   Now, if there was a tool that could specifically seek out zombies and kill
them off, that would be a different story.

Rich

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