From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 16 16:27: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merganser.its.uu.se (merganser.its.uu.se [130.238.6.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FDDF37BD89 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:27:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se) Received: from regulus.its.uu.se ([130.238.7.19]:63771 "HELO ertr1013.student.csd.uu.se") by merganser.its.uu.se with SMTP id ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 01:26:49 +0100 Received: (qmail 1136 invoked by uid 1001); 17 Mar 2000 00:26:42 -0000 Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 01:26:42 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Bhishan Hemrajani Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Zombie process in top Message-ID: <20000317012642.C1003@student.csd.uu.se> References: <200003162325.PAA47207@cytosine.dhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200003162325.PAA47207@cytosine.dhs.org>; from bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org on Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 03:25:02PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 03:25:02PM -0800, Bhishan Hemrajani wrote: > While I was running top, I noticed > that I have a zombio process running > on my machine. > > What is a "zombie process"? > A process that has died but whose parent hasn't wait()ed for it (yet). This means that the system must keep track of at least its exit status in case the parent wants it and therefore can't remove the process entirely. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message