| zombie process (Or "defunct process") A that has terminated (either because it has been killed by a or because it has called ()) and whose has not yet received notification of its termination by executing (some form of) the () . A zombie process exists solely as a entry and consumes no other resources. This entry is retained to hold the child's exit status until the parent process wants to retrieve it. The parent can also be notified asynchronously via a signal of the child's termination. Zombie processes can be seen in "ps" listings occasionally (with a status "Z" in some versions). Compare . (1997-10-08) |
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