Re: zombies

[Bolan Meek <Bolan.Meek@wcom.com>]

Sven Burgener wrote:
 ...
> Today I noticed the following:
> 
> 15444  ?  Z    0:00 (cron <zombie>)
> 
> Under which circumstances does a process turn into a zombie? I assume
> this applies to UNIX in general.

zombies are what is left from child processes when the parents thereof
do not wait() for them, but exit() instead.
> 
> Any pointers / references appreciated.

http://support.qnx.com/support/docs/qnx4/sysarch/proc.html has another
wording.

> 
> TIA

YWIA