Wednesday, March 4, 2015

process




On Unix and Unix-like computer operating systems, a zombie process or defunct process is a process that has completed execution (via the exit system call) but still has an entry in the process table: it is a process in the "Terminated state".

reference:

www.cs.utexas.edu/users/witchel/372/lectures/02.Processes.pdf

1 comment:

  1. zombie process will have the process id the main process say 1

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