Re: Zombie process..??

[Manfred Bartz]

A zombie is a process that has finished but its parent has not yet
received the child's exit status.  You can safely ignore it.

If you want to see who its parent is, do a ``ps axf'' on Linux, the ps
command may have different options on other systems.

More info: <http://www.faqs.org/faqs/faqsearch.html>  specifically:
<http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/programmer/faq/index.html>

-- 
Manfred Bartz