On 09/14/2011 03:37 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
...
Then it is not a zombie. Zombies are exited processes which still have their
parent, but the parent has not (yet) collected their exit status.
...
From the 'ps' man page:
"Processes marked <defunct> are dead processes (so-called "zombies")
that remain because their parent has not destroyed them properly. These
processes will be destroyed by init(8) if the parent process exits."
In my experience, zombie processes have a parent process ID of 1 (init)
by the time I discover them.
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Josh Miller
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