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Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 09:46:58 +0500 (IST)
From: Gaurish R Dalvi <gaurishr@tulblr.unisys.com>
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Hi!
	A small doubt.
	Thing is according to books, a zombie has released all its memory
etc. but clogs up a system as the kernel has to maintain its return state.

	How can you make the system release the zombie totally. ( i.e. it
shud not appear in ps command listsing even.).