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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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	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]].		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 [[process]]es are reaped by [[init]].