- This page was last edited on 27 October 2005, at 02:05.
- Content is available under Attribution 2.0 Canada - Creative Commons unless otherwise noted.
- Privacy policy
- About Hackepedia
- Disclaimers
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. Orphaned processes are reaped by init.