Trouble killing processes in SysV/AT

[Barnacle Wes]

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."
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