[X-Unix] Zombies

[Mike Gorski]

James Bucanek wrote the following on 6/14/04 6:40 PM:

> 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?


On my 10.2 machine, zombies are listed with a PPID of 0.

-Mike