dies out suddenly as in? When a process dies, it has to be wait()'d for by it's parent. Till that happens, it will be a zombie. As long as it's a zombie, it's pid cannot be reused. Once the wait is done as well, the pid is "free", as in, it can be assigned to another process. Though i doubt will happen until the system runs out of pids and is forced to wrap around.
c'ya
rahul
surya.prabhakar@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
If a process with a certain pid dies out suddenly . Is there a possiblilty that the same pid gets assigned
to some other process latter .
thx in advance.
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