[arch-general] Zombie Processes

[Andy Pieters]

On 27 August 2014 02:03, Jan Alexander Steffens <jan.steffens at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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().

That's very interesting, I have always been taught that zombies are bad because they take up resources like memory and CPU cycles, hold locks etc.

Are you saying that is wrong and the only thing being taken up is just a tiny bundle of data?

Andy