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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.
If you're unfortunate enough to have a <zombie> (ps) process on your host, you can just ignore it until the next time your machine is power cycled.

Latest revision as of 01:53, 27 October 2005

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.