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- From: ajmy@festival.ed.ac.uk (A Myles)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: <defunct> Zombies
- Message-ID: <29678@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 13:16:51 GMT
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- Sender: nntpusr@castle.ed.ac.uk
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- Funnily enough, I was wondering about this last night...
-
- If a process can be identified as defunct, why is it not removed from
- the process table? I've seen machines with week old zombies and no sign
- of any living parent (i.e. a process matching PPID). I don't think
- its possible for a zombie to cling onto it's parent's parent is it,
- while the "intermediate" process exits?
-
- Is there some accounting purpose fulfilled by leaving zombies in
- the table, or such like? (with and without parent)
-
-
- Yours in ignorant curiousity...
-
- Andy.
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