On Monday, Jun 14, 2004, at 22:17 Canada/Eastern, Mike Gorski wrote: > 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 [...] >>> >>> I'm told that on Mac OS X there's no reliable way to find a zombie's >>> parent [...] >> >> [...] What's the PPID listed for the zombies? > > On my 10.2 machine, zombies are listed with a PPID of 0. Ditto. Got stuck, two zombies, both UID: 0 and PPID: 0. So I guess the report was right, there's no easy way of finding a zombie's parent in OS X. Anybody has any suggestions? <0x0192>