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		<title>Pbug: Zombie processes shoudl be a category of themselves, also it&#039;s very hard to zombie an orphaned process since init will do the waiting for it, thus cleaning it up</title>
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		<updated>2005-10-27T09:53:37Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Zombie processes shoudl be a category of themselves, also it&amp;#039;s very hard to zombie an orphaned process since init will do the waiting for it, thus cleaning it up&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 02:53, 27 October 2005&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;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&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;. &lt;/del&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;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.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;If you&#039;re unfortunate enough to have a &amp;lt;zombie&amp;gt; process in [[ps]] on your host, you can just ignore it until the next time your machine is power cycled&lt;/del&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-added&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>Frankk at 05:32, 27 October 2005</title>
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		<updated>2005-10-27T05:32:29Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 22:32, 26 October 2005&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;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.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;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.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>Frankk</name></author>
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		<title>Frankk at 04:35, 27 October 2005</title>
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		<updated>2005-10-27T04:35:49Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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		<title>Pbug at 20:04, 8 October 2005</title>
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		<updated>2005-10-08T20:04:07Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;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.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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