[X-Unix] Zombies

[James Bucanek]

Alex wrote on Monday, June 14, 2004:
>>  [...] Find out what the parent of the zombie is, then find out why 
>> it's stuck, and you might be closer to solving your problem.
>
>That's why I wanted to understand them better. I'm told that on Mac OS 
>X there's no reliable way to find a zombie's parent, but I don't see 
>why that should be so.

Interesting -- I'd never heard that.  I don't have any handy way of making a zombie process to test this, but what happens when you do a 'ps -lax' with zombies in the list?  What's the PPID listed for the zombies?

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