RE: zombies

From: Dilley, Larry (Larry_Dilley@uscs.com)
Date: Thu Jun 24 1999 - 09:51:30 PDT


Don't you need to use garlic and holy water or something...

Larry Dilley
Network Administrator
USCS International
Larry_Dilley@uscs.com

-----Original Message-----
From: brian@brie.com [mailto:brian@brie.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 2:22 PM
To: lug-nuts@cheapnet.net
Subject: Re: zombies

Hmm, it sounds as if zombies could be hard to kill :*)

brian

On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 20:56:16 -0700, you wrote:

>For what it's worth..
>
>I read somewhere that a zombie is a process that is in the process of
>dying, but is not dead. Kinda makes sense given the name. Sort of
>like a program that is for whatever reason closing and in the process
>of shutting down (writing to data files, etc), but hasn't shut down
>yet. In general I read that programs that leave behind zombie
>processes are poorly written programs as this should never happen
>with a well written program.
>
>I see the equivalent of zombies much more often Windows programs.
>
>
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