[arch-general] Zombie Processes

[Lukas Jirkovsky]

On 27 August 2014 02:03, Jan Alexander Steffens <jan.steffens at gmail.com> wrote:
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> No, since a zombie process is dead and cannot execute any code.

To expand more on that: zombie process in not really a process
anymore. In fact, it's not anything more than a little bundle of data
(basically just an integer containing the exist status of the process
and some flags) that are processed by wait().

Lukas