It's a process that has been given a special drug so that it acts in a
hypnotized manner. 8^)
Actually, here's the real scoop: Every process (except init) has exactly one
parent and zero or more children. Normally, when a child process dies
(i.e. finishes what it was doing or is terminated abnormally), the parent
cleans up after it. But in some cases, this might not happen correctly. For
instance, if the parent dies before cleaning up the child, the child will
remain as a zombie (that is, supposedly it has died, but the reference
is not removed from the process table).
I'm on a less firm ground with the following: I *think* there is a kernel
process that periodically cleans up the process table and purges these zombies
out.
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 05:13:02PM -0600, David Hajoglou wrote:
> I searched a few linux sites and such, but I failed to find a definition
> of a zombied process. Where can I get some information on processes and
> such. And, what does zombie mean?
>
>
> Thanks
> hojo
>
>
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