Options to stop processes that can't be killed -9 other than reboot

[Mike Burger]

> Mike Burger wrote:
>> If you have a process that is stuck in a zombie mode and kill -9 isn't
>> getting rid of it, you may need to do something with the parent process
>> that spawned it in the first place.
>
> Yeah, but too often, the parent process has gone, and the zombie's now got
> a parent of 1.

That would stink, yeah. :-(

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