What does take care of a child process if a parent process is killed? (Linux 2.6)

[phanikumar]

hi

i am working in Linux 2.6 kernel. one thing i like know in linux.

if parent process is killed which is having a child process.who will take care of this child process.

 

[cfant]

Re: linux

Check the description for function exit and you will see that child processes are not killed automatically.

 

[ivar4ever]

Re: linux

it is possible for a process to be alive even after its parent dies.
such processes are called "Zombie" processes and they will be periodically verified for by the INIT Process (the first process with PID=1) and the resources associated to them are freed after detecting them.
There is a Daemon Process that invokes this action periodically.

 

[jjohn]

linux

In Linux, every process except process 0 (the swapper) is created when another process executes the fork system call. The process that invoked fork is the parent process and the newly-created process is the child process. Every process (except process 0) has one parent process, but can have many child processes.

The kernel identifies each process by its process identifier (PID). Process 0 is a special process that is created when the system boots; after forking a child process (process 1), process 0 becomes the swapper process. Process 1, known as init, is the ancestor of every other process in the system.