From: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:27:14 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Add killing-defunct-processes post.
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Add killing-defunct-processes post.
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diff --git a/posts/Killing_defunct_processes.mdwn b/posts/Killing_defunct_processes.mdwn
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+[Allen Rueter][AR] [points out][ref] that one way to kill a defunct
+process is to kill its parent or child:
+
+    # ps -ef | grep '<defunct>\|PPID'
+    UID   PID  PPID  C    STIME TTY      TIME CMD
+    zzz 13868     1  0                   0:00 <defunct>
+    # ps -ef | grep '13868\|PPID'
+    UID   PID  PPID  C    STIME TTY      TIME CMD
+    zzz 13868     1  0                   0:00 <defunct>1
+    zzz 16596 13868  0                   0:00 a.out
+    # kill -9 16596
+
+[AR]: http://www.cts.wustl.edu/~allen/
+[ref]: http://www.cts.wustl.edu/~allen/kill-defunct-process.html
+
+[[!tag tags/linux]]