Re: killing 'dead' processes

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 08:47:53PM -0400, thomson@mail.afabco.com wrote:
> C'mon, this is linux=2E That can't be right=2E=2E=2E
What's a =2E control character?

And sure it can be right; there are such things at atomic operations,
and they can get stuck, just like everything else can. On the other
hand, I've found that it's not usually much of a problem; they tend to
work themselves out, and if they don't, you just start another one, and
ignore the hung one.

See also 'zombie process'.

    --Mac

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