Hmm, it sounds as if zombies could be hard to kill :*)
brian
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 20:56:16 -0700, you wrote:
>For what it's worth..
>
>I read somewhere that a zombie is a process that is in the process of
>dying, but is not dead. Kinda makes sense given the name. Sort of
>like a program that is for whatever reason closing and in the process
>of shutting down (writing to data files, etc), but hasn't shut down
>yet. In general I read that programs that leave behind zombie
>processes are poorly written programs as this should never happen
>with a well written program.
>
>I see the equivalent of zombies much more often Windows programs.
>
>
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