Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > > > Today I noticed the following: ... > > > 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.
Ah, yes. I'd caught myself, but you beat me to it: good work!