On 27 August 2014 02:03, Jan Alexander Steffens <jan.steffens@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > No, since a zombie process is dead and cannot execute any code. To expand more on that: zombie process in not really a process anymore. In fact, it's not anything more than a little bundle of data (basically just an integer containing the exist status of the process and some flags) that are processed by wait(). Lukas