What is a zombie?

Answer Posted / vishal

The last state of all process is zombie.But this doesnot
mean if process parent is dead it will come in
zombie.because as soon as parent is dead Process 0 i.e. init
process becomes parent to that child.
To be in zombie state means that process parent does not
enquired about its cause of death by executing wait() .

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