Found 1 hit - Term: zombie process, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
zombie process
or "defunct process" a unix process
that has terminated either because it has been killed by a
signal or because it has called exit and whose parent
process has not yet received notification of its termination
by executing some form of the wait system call.
a zombie process exists solely as a process table 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 orphan process.
1997-10-08
see also:
unix process signal exit parent process wait
system call process table orphan process
Results 1 - 7 of 7 found about zombie process: Process
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Process, definition of term: Process
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Zombie, definition of term: Zombie
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