A zombie process is a transitional phase that a process will pass through in it's
way to death. Here's an exceprt from "The Magic Garden Explained":
"When a process terminates via _exit it enters an intermediate stage of
termination called a zombie state..."
You will see zombies associated with parent/child processes, in particular a
persistant zombie will exist if the parent of a process exits before the child,
since the parent is responsible for "burying" it's child. In this condition the
zombie process is then inherited by the init process and will remain until
reboot. Note that while the zombie process does maintain an entry in the process
table, it's structure is a much smaller entry than a normal "living" process
although this is a much debated issue where I work.
Ed
Adam Wendt wrote:
> relating to proccesses.
>
> What exactly is a zombie proccess, how does it affect me, and what can I do to
> get rid of them?
>
> TIA
> -Adam-
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