23 Oct
2006
23 Oct
'06
10:28
Mike Noble wrote:
A zombie process is not the same as an orphan process. Orphan processes don't become zombie processes; instead, they are adopted by init (process ID 1), which waits on its children.
Mike Noble wrote:
This is not true, a zombie process will stay around for ever. A zombie is caused by the parent process dying and leaving the child process still running.
Now I am more confused. In your effort to clear things up with the Wikipedia quote, you seem to contradict your other post. I might not be an expert in this area but it sounds like this thread is describing an orphan process, not a zombie process? Does anyone else have any comments on that? Damon Register