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A zombie process is a process awaiting collection by a parent.  It is also called reaping the child from the parents perspective and is done with the [[wait]](2) [[syscall]].  [[Orphan]]ed processes are reaped by [[init]].
A zombie process is a process awaiting collection by a parent.  To clean them up the parent process reaps the child with the [[wait]](2) [[syscall]].  [[Orphan]]ed processes are reaped by [[init]].

Revision as of 02:07, 27 October 2005

A zombie process is a process awaiting collection by a parent. To clean them up the parent process reaps the child with the wait(2) syscall. Orphaned processes are reaped by init.

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