Hi,

On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 12:14:16PM -0500, Lord Isildur wrote:
> This is not the same as a zombie, those are processes which are in some 
> stages of exiting and have lost their parents along the way. Those are 
> eventually picked up by init and allowed to finish exiting. 

Ahem... Zombies are processes in exiting that DO have their parent, but 
their parent didn't wait() yet for them to pick up their exit state.

If the parent dies, they are reassigned to process 1, and as long that is
init, it will dutifully wait() for everything so they go away.

Regards,
	-is
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