Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Michael Abbott <[email protected]> · Mon, 12 May 2008 13:07:40 +0000 (GMT)

On Mon, 12 May 2008, Michael Abbott wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2008, Thompson, David H. wrote:
> > It is not a zombe.  If a child process dies and the parent never calls 
> > wait() you get a zombe.  If the parent dies then the child's parent 
> > becomes init, which calls wait all the time. So anything with parent 
> > init is still running, probably waiting for some I/O.
> 
> Looks awfully like a zombie to me:
> 
> $ ps ax
> ...
> 31921 ?        Zl     0:00 [softIoc] <defunct>
> $ cat status

Sorry, meant
	cat /proc/31921/status

> Name:   softIoc
> State:  Z (zombie)
> SleepAVG:       68%
> Tgid:   31921
> Pid:    31921
> PPid:   1
> TracerPid:      0
> Uid:    1015    1015    1015    1015
> Gid:    1015    1015    1015    1015
> FDSize: 0
> Groups: 500 506 1015
> Threads:        2
> SigPnd: 0000000000000000
> ShdPnd: 0000000000000001
> SigBlk: 0000000000000000
> SigIgn: 0000000000000000
> SigCgt: 0000000180000000
> CapInh: 0000000000000000
> CapPrm: 0000000000000000
> CapEff: 0000000000000000
> $

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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