How to kill a zombie process on Linux

Posted by bob on Oct 31, 2021 9:25 AM EDT
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Happy Halloween Open SOURCE-rers! Here's a tale as old as epoch time. Since there has been C and Unix, and (later on) Linux, we've had zombies. Specifically, there are processes that get marked as a zombie process. Misunderstood by some, ignored by others, and immune to the efforts of so many of us trying to kill these processes without much success. Why is that? read more

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