A zombie process is already dead. kill minus nine does nothing to it. The fix is always one level up the process tree, because the bug is in the parent that failed to reap its child, never in the child itself.
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A zombie process is already dead. kill minus nine does nothing to it. The fix is always one level up the process tree, because the bug is in the parent that failed to reap its child, never in the child itself.