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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