[Info-vax] Orphaned processes on OpenVMS

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On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 14:53 -0700, Wendell wrote:
> One of my biggest aggravations with *nix is the persistence of
> orphaned processes. Say an app hangs. I log in to another virtual
> terminal and "kill" it. That leaves various, no longer needed
> processes still running, and the only way to really clean up is reboot
> the system. At the worst, these stragglers can interfere with
> restarting the app I had to kill. 

init is supposed to reap those orphaned processes regularly. If it's not
cleaning up its own mess, something's wrong.
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