Defunt

  The defunct process has been created by the below packages, Whenver i am killing this defunct using preap -F <PID> its showing the exit status 0 but again its generating the same process with new PID. How to kill the process any help.

bash-3.2# ps -ef | grep -i defu

    root 28963 21504   0 12:19:27 console     0:00 grep -i defu

    root 28559  1352   0        - ?           0:00 <defunct>

bash-3.2# ptree 1352

1352  /opt/EABpython/bin/python /opt/EABfds/components/SYS/PSolClariionUtils/4.

  28559 <defunct>

bash-3.2# preap -F 28559

preap: cannot examine 28559: no such process

bash-3.2# ptree 1352

1352  /opt/EABpython/bin/python /opt/EABfds/components/SYS/PSolClariionUtils/4.

  29157 <defunct>

bash-3.2# preap -F 29157

29157: exited with status 0

bash-3.2# ptree 1352

1352  /opt/EABpython/bin/python /opt/EABfds/components/SYS/PSolClariionUtils/4.