A zombie is a child process that has lost its perent. This happenes when a
fork is called and the parent was not written well to watch after its
children. And yes this should not happen with well written software.
Mike Machado
mike@innercite.com
InnerCite
Network Specialist
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Harry Souders wrote:
> For what it's worth..
>
> I read somewhere that a zombie is a process that is in the process of
> dying, but is not dead. Kinda makes sense given the name. Sort of
> like a program that is for whatever reason closing and in the process
> of shutting down (writing to data files, etc), but hasn't shut down
> yet. In general I read that programs that leave behind zombie
> processes are poorly written programs as this should never happen
> with a well written program.
>
> I see the equivalent of zombies much more often Windows programs.
>
>
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