immortal process? (there can be only one!)

[John Vetterli]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Jing Su wrote:
> On my RedHat9 2.4 kernel workstation, I found three instances of
> 'updatedb' running.  All three of them appear to be dead (consuming no
> memory or CPU time).  I've tried killing them (including kill -9), but the
> process refuse to die.  This is the first time I've encountered this.  It
> doesn't appear to be a zombie process since init hasn't removed it, and
> the three undead 'updatedb' instances are interfering with subsequent
> attempts at running updatedb.

What status are these processes in?  Processes in status "D" (usually
because of i/o problems) are also invulnerable to "kill -9".

JV
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