right... thats what i meant by in some stages of exiting..

isildur

On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, der Mouse 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.
> 
> 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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