Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System
On Mon, 12 May 2008, Thompson, David H. wrote:
> It is not a zombe. If a child process dies and the parent never calls
> wait() you get a zombe. If the parent dies then the child's parent
> becomes init, which calls wait all the time. So anything with parent
> init is still running, probably waiting for some I/O.
Looks awfully like a zombie to me:
$ ps ax
...
31921 ? Zl 0:00 [softIoc] <defunct>
$ cat status
Name: softIoc
State: Z (zombie)
SleepAVG: 68%
Tgid: 31921
Pid: 31921
PPid: 1
TracerPid: 0
Uid: 1015 1015 1015 1015
Gid: 1015 1015 1015 1015
FDSize: 0
Groups: 500 506 1015
Threads: 2
SigPnd: 0000000000000000
ShdPnd: 0000000000000001
SigBlk: 0000000000000000
SigIgn: 0000000000000000
SigCgt: 0000000180000000
CapInh: 0000000000000000
CapPrm: 0000000000000000
CapEff: 0000000000000000
$
Have to say I'm rather surprised to see the /proc entry, though.
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