How to kill a zombie process on Linux: 
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Here’s a tale as old as epoch time. Since there has been C and Unix, and (later on) Linux, we’ve had zombies. Specifically, there are processes that get marked as a zombie process. Misunderstood by some, ignored by others, and immune to the efforts of so many of us trying to kill these processes without much success. Why is that?
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