What is a zombie process?



What is a zombie process?..

Answer / Ranbir

A zombie process is a defunct (terminated) child process that still exists in the process table but has completed execution and is awaiting its parent process to reap it. This occurs when the parent process neglects to call wait() or waitpid() system calls.nnZombie processes consume some resources, such as memory, even though they are no longer active.

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