can <exiting> processes on 4.2bsd be killed?

[tjt at kobold.UUCP]

Wayne Faustus (ucbvax!faustus) says:

    <exiting> processes are those that have already died or been
    killed, so you can't kill them again. They are waiting for init
    to wait for them so they can give it their resource usages, etc.
    It init isn't doing this then maybe there is a problem somewhere
    in your system...

This is not quite true.  <exiting> processes are waiting for their
parent to wait for them.  However, if the original parent has exited,
process 1 (init) "adopts" the <exiting> process.
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