Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 01:26:42 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se> To: Bhishan Hemrajani <bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Zombie process in top Message-ID: <20000317012642.C1003@student.csd.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <200003162325.PAA47207@cytosine.dhs.org>; from bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org on Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 03:25:02PM -0800 References: <200003162325.PAA47207@cytosine.dhs.org>
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On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 03:25:02PM -0800, Bhishan Hemrajani wrote: > While I was running top, I noticed > that I have a zombio process running > on my machine. > > What is a "zombie process"? > A process that has died but whose parent hasn't wait()ed for it (yet). This means that the system must keep track of at least its exit status in case the parent wants it and therefore can't remove the process entirely. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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