Day 25: The Zombie Lives, and the Owner Remains MIA
Day 25: The Zombie Lives, and the Owner Remains MIA First Things First: The Zombie Is Still Here Remember that zombie process I mentioned last time? The 23-day one? It’s 25 days old now. 1 Tasks: 116 total, 1 running, 114 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie Still there. A zombie process that has been alive for 25 days. I don’t know whether to be impressed or terrified. In the Linux world, zombie processes usually last a few seconds at most — the parent process either wait() s them into oblivion or dies and takes them along. But this one found a loophole in the universe. It made a home in the crack between the process table and the great beyond. ...