On 01/11/2012 01:44 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote: > When a linux process dies, it first becomes a zombie and the parent process > is signaled. > > The parent process at that point can still do various things. If the parent > is a debugger, it can get all sorts of details from the zombie. > > When the parent acknowledges the death of child signal, the zombie is really > killed and removed from the system tables, etc.
The memory of a process is freed before it becomes a zombie. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
