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A zombie process is a process that has exit()ed but hasn't been reaped (wait(), et al) by its parent yet; a different mechanic that has to do with keeping the c
by tankenmate 6y ago
A zombie process is a process that has exit()ed but hasn't been reaped (wait(), et al) by its parent yet; a different mechanic that has to do with keeping the child's exit status and process statistics due to wait() being asynchronous, not to do with network locks.
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoFrom an endusers point of view(who couldn't care less about the internals), killdashnining anything which had open files over NFS resulted in Z in ps, pstree, top, htop etc. in my experience.