zombie process can't be killed

Question

Is there a way to kill a zombie process? I\'ve tried calling exit to kill the process and even sending SIGINT signal to the process, but it seems t

Answer 1

kill -17 ZOMBIE_PID

OR

kill -SIGCHLD ZOMBIE_PID

would possibly work, bu tlike everyone else said, it is waiting for the parent to call wait() so unless the parent dies without reaping, and it got stuck there for some reason you might not want to kill it.