Post #1665483
2026-01-15 06:07 UTC
Yes you can. You get rid of the zombies by killing the parent process.
Replies (3)
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@webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2026-01-15 06:53
Zombies are getting to be parents now? Woke has gone too far, in my day they would have gotten a bullet between the eyes.
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@Shanmugha@lemmy.world 2026-01-15 07:31
they can be automatically moved to have parent 1 or something like that, so only way to kill them is a reboot. But personally I am yet to setup a stationary (uh, not a laptop) computer and see how it works for me without poweroff at the end of the day
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@palordrolap@fedia.io 2026-01-15 11:03
You can also try signalling the parent with a SIGCHLD. Most of the time it does nothing, and hey, you'd be using a stronger version of the kill command anyway if it doesn't work.