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Zombie processes shoudl be a category of themselves, also it's very hard to zombie an orphaned process since init will do the waiting for it, thus cleaning it up |
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An orphan is a parentless child, both in the real world and in UNIX. When a [[process]] gets orphaned it will take [[init]] (process 1) as its parent | An orphan is a parentless child, both in the real world and in UNIX. When a [[process]] gets orphaned it will take [[init]] (process 1) as its parent. | ||