[arch-general] Zombie Processes

[Mark Lee]

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To all,

I was wondering regarding the killing of a zombie process. As far as I
know, a zombied process is inherited by root when it's parent is
killed. The kernel periodically calls wait() which reaps the zombie
process and frees its memory. I was wondering if a possible attack
could be mounted by the zombie process when it is inherited by root.

Regards,
Mark
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