> 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.

Are you sure?  Most OSes use "zombie" status for processes that have
exited but whose exit status has not yet been collected with a
wait()-family call, whether by init or anyone else.  (Which name makes
some sense: they're dead but not yet entirely gone).

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