Trouble killing processes in SysV/AT

[Wolf N. Paul]

In article <216 at obie.UUCP> wes at obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) writes:
 >In article <Apr.29.21.45.24.1988.6900 at athos.rutgers.edu>, hedrick at athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes:
 >| You ask about processes that refuse to die.  (Calling them "immortal"
 >| confers a positive aura that is probably undeserved.  Normally these
 >| processes are in a useless state, and might better be referred to as
 >| members of the "undead".)
 >
 >The canonical term for such a process is "zombie."

I always thought that "zombies" refers to dead processes which have not
been waited for, rather than processes which refuse to die ?!?
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