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How to kill those Zombies

Posted 06-13-2013 at 03:22 PM by rtmistler
When a process has ended, signals are emitted to it's parent to indicate that the process is done. This does not delete the process however, information about the process remains with the system until such time as the parent checks that signal. The process becomes a zombie until the exit signal is checked.

The reason for this is closure.

Rather than have that process go away and never give an understanding as to why it went away, it stays as a zombie so that the parent...
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Bash functions to list and kill or send signals to process trees

Posted 03-31-2012 at 11:54 PM by konsolebox
Updated 05-27-2018 at 03:11 PM by konsolebox
These functions can be used in scripts or interactive shells to manipulate process trees. At least bash version 3.0 is needed. May also work with some earlier versions.

kill_tree - Creates a list of processes based from a parent process ID first then sends the signal to all of them synchronously.

kill_tree_2 - Same as killtree but it doesn't create a list first. It immediately kills processes as it goes through every level.

kill_tree_3 - This version...
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