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Zombie process in Linux

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hi

can i know about zombie process in much detail.
 

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i think the process which still alive even after its parent process is died...
 

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Try this link **broken link removed** hope its useful.
 

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A zombie process doesn't react to signals because it's not really a process at all- it's just what's left over after it died. What's supposed to happen is that its parent process was to issue a "wait()" to collect the information about its exit. If the parent doesn't (programming error or just bad programming), you get a zombie. The zombie will go away if its parent dies- it will be "adopted" by init which will do the wait()- so if you see one hanging about, check its parent; if it is init, it will be gone soon, if not the only recourse is to kill the parent..which you may or may not want to do.

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