Stubborn Processes

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Sun Jul 20 16:26:59 EDT 2003


On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 15:09:02 -0400
David Kramer <david at thekramers.net> wrote:

> I thought part of the definition of a zombie process was that it
> became disassociated from it's parent.
Also, a child process can become a zombie if it dies and the parent
fails to issue a wait(2). 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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