[X-Unix] Zombies

Alex alist at sprint.ca
Tue Jun 15 16:09:48 PDT 2004


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?

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