Zombi process

[rohitbasu77]

Hi dear,
i do have a question:
What exactly is a zombi process?
how to delet those one?

[rohitbasu77]

anyone please reply to me..

[ashitpro]

Hi dear,
i do have a question:
What exactly is a zombi process?
how to delet those one?

when parent process issues a fork system call, it spawns a child process.
Idly parent should query the exit status of the child process by system calls like waitpid,wait etc.
But if parent process fails to do this or never issues such calls and just get terminate, then child process is said to be zombie(other name is orphan) i.e process having no parent. It just exists in memory holding the resources.
There is only one way to clean the zombie process and that is use 'kill' command

[rohitbasu77]

when parent process issues a fork system call, it spawns a child process.
Idly parent should query the exit status of the child process by system calls like waitpid,wait etc.
But if parent process fails to do this or never issues such calls and just get terminate, then child process is said to be zombie(other name is orphan) i.e process having no parent. It just exists in memory holding the resources.
There is only one way to clean the zombie process and that is use 'kill' command

thanks, but how to know that the process is a zombie one.

[ashitpro]

thanks, but how to know that the process is a zombie one.

when you give 'ps -eLF' command as I said in previous message, you will see the 'defunct' word across zombie processes.