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From: dannyman@arh0135.urh.uiuc.edu (Dannyman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: What is a zombie?
Date: 26 Sep 1996 01:38:41 GMT
Organization: National Semi-Autonomous Republic of Dannyland
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Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote:
: Look at the parent program for the problem.
I actually got a real cool explanation in email. Basically what it
is is that a program program calls exit() without wait() leaving a zombie
child behind. The zombie takes up no resources, as it's done and is simply
waiting around to be reaped, like a lost sould.
/sys/init, which is process 1, ocassionally reaps zombies, which it
can do as being process1 it is hte great grand-parent of all processes.
It sounded really damn cool to me. Any time you can explain a
computer thing and use the verb reap transitively ... wow!
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