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Re: [Cado-nfs-discuss] weak up a may be zombie process(cado-nfs)


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  • From: Emmanuel Thomé <Emmanuel.Thome@inria.fr>
  • To: cado-nfs-discuss@lists.gforge.inria.fr
  • Subject: Re: [Cado-nfs-discuss] weak up a may be zombie process(cado-nfs)
  • Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 22:43:36 +0200
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On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 11:45:39PM +0800, ChenQin wrote:
> Hi list.how can i weak up a may be zombie process(cado-nfs).thanks~

Can you please elaborate ?

Cado-nfs spawns no process named "cado-nfs".

A zombie process is a dead process which hasn't been wait()-ed for by its
parent. There is no such thing as "waking up" a zombie.

Here's a (minimal ?) way you create a zombie, for instance:

perl -e 'sleep fork'

$ ps x | grep perl
27089 pts/1 S+ 0:00 perl -e sleep fork
27090 pts/1 Z+ 0:00 [perl] <defunct>

parent is pid 27089. It's gone sleeping for 27090 seconds, but the child
exited immediately, yet hasn't been reaped by its parent.


E.




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