killing a process -- kill(id, SIGKILL);

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Sep 21, 2001, "Ivan Novick" <ivandn@abac.com> wrote:

> kill(id, SIGKILL);

> the process is still displayed when issuing the command ps -a except it says
> <defunct>

> Is this the best way to kill a process?

This mailing list is for help people get GCC working, not a general
Unix programming helpdesk.  Please use a more appropriate forum for
such questions next time.


<defunct> means the process was successfully killed.  The kernel is
just waiting for the parent process to collect the exit status of the
process with wait().

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