Help- How to delete a corrupted process?

[Richard Tobin]

In article <4131 at auspex.auspex.com> guy at auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>How do I delete a corrupted process with garbage "H&^5$#^*" after I used the 
>>ps -axu command to check on all running processes?

>  BUGS
>       Things can change while ps is running; the picture it  gives
>       is only a close approximation to the current state.

There was also a bug in at least one version of the NFS kernel mods
for BSD that caused ps to print junk process names for certain processes
(maybe #! shell scripts?  I can't remember for sure now).

-- Richard
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