From: "Thees Peereboom" 

Paul,

Ultrix, haven't heard that for a long time - wasn't that running on the old VAX'es?

- Thees Peereboom


On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 16:14:42 +0200, Paul Ranson  wrote:

> It can help to have an understanding of what is happening, what 'kill'
> does
> etc. Although we're in the wrong room for that discussion.
>
> Some time ago when I worked on BSD based Ultrix systems we used to slowly
> accumulate processes that were killed yet refused to actually depart. The
> only way out was a reboot.
>
> Paul
>
> "Frank Haber"  wrote in message
> news:43342972$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> >The process is killed and will terminate when it is unblocked.
>>
>> What is this, some sort of Zen Kill, then?  Do I have to redefine
"kill"
>> as a concept?  It's not dead, Jim?
>>
>>
>> -zombie
>
>

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