> > Today I noticed the following: > > > > 15444 ? Z 0:00 (cron <zombie>) > > > > Under which circumstances does a process turn into a zombie? I assume > > this applies to UNIX in general. > > zombies are what is left from child processes when the parents thereof > do not wait() for them, but exit() instead. > that's wrong ... if the parent process would exit, then it's children would be inherited by init, which would make a wait() upon the sigchld it will receive, when the child exits. long-time zombies typically indicate a locked up parent process.
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