How to kill a zombie process on Linux

Posted By on Oct 31, 2021 |

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Happy Halloween Open SOURCE-rers!

Here’s a tale as old as epoch time. Since there has been C and Unix, and (later on) Linux, we’ve had zombies. Specifically, there are processes that get marked as a zombie process. Misunderstood by some, ignored by others, and immune to the efforts of so many of us trying to kill these processes without much success. Why is that?

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