What is a zombie?
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Answer / manish
Zombie process or defunct process is a process that has
completed execution but still has an entry in the process
table.
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Answer / surendra
When a child process exits, it has to give the exit status
to the parent process. If the parent process is busy or
suspended then the child process will not be able to
terminate. Such a state is called zombie state.
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Answer / 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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Answer / suhas shirol
zombie process occure when the proc table entrie is not
released.
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Answer / kamal
If the child process is done its work and if the allocated
time to that process is over, that process will get in
zombie state to give its last out put to its parent process.
When parent process get the time and when it listen to the
out put of child process child process will get terminated.
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Answer / tusifu edison
a zombie is a process that has completed the execution but not yet reaped by the parent process. but the process entries are in the process table and the PID.
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Answer / dil ka don
Whenever process killed, then it makes a "zombie" state
entry in the process table. because parent process or init
process need status information of killed process, such as
how long time killed process running in kernel and user
process...
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Answer / kesava reddy
A system that has been taken over using Remote Control
Software. Zombies are often used to send spam or to attack
remote servers with an overwhelming amount of traffic (a
Distributed Denial of Service Attack).
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Answer / achal
A zombie process is one whose child process has terminated
or get killed before its own termination.
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Answer / sameer
A zombie process is child process whose parent has been
killed and this child process is neither active nor dead.
Hence the name zombie.
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