Re: can't kill a PID
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 06:34:55AM -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote:
> I always thought that with 'kill -9 PID' you could clean up just about
> any process, but I've run into one that just won't go ...
> kosuke 9026 0.0 0.9 14460 4932 ? D 00:16 0:00 xmms
The state ``D'' means uninterruptible.
> kosuke 9027 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 00:16 0:00 [xmms <defunct>]
This process is a child of the uninterruptible process. Since you cannot
kill the process in D state, the process in Z state will not reparent to
init (by losing it's current parent) and be cleaned up by the kernel
when init waits on it.
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Matthew Gregan |/
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