Re: killing a job

[Thierry Chatelet <tchatelet@free.fr>]

The Saturday 02 February 2013 00:53:48, Bob Proulx wrote :
> Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> > Ok I got the pid of each instance of vlc. but kill +instance number does
> > not kill anything, no moe than pkill vlc!!!
> 
> If the process won't die then likely it is a zombie.
> 
>   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_process
> 
> Zombies cannot be killed because they are already dead.  The most
> common reason they haven't left yet is because their parent process
> hasn't executed wait(2) upon them to receive their exit status.  In
> which case the problem is a bad parent.
> 
> Find the parent process id and kill the parent.  In the case of zombie
> processes it is the bad parent that is really the problem.
> 
> Bob

True, zombie cant be be kill as they alredy dead by definition! Well, top gives 
me  2 zombies. So I should be able to kill at least 1 vlc instance. But is 
there any way to get the name of zombies?... Well, strange  thing no???
Thierry