From: Bruce Zimmer (b.r.zimmer@WORLDNET.ATT.NET)
Date: Wed Aug 07 2002 - 18:02:52 EDT
Nope, when any process terminates, all of the processes children are
adopted by init. The main purpose of init on a running system is to
reap the status of orphaned processes. A zombie is a process that has
been terminated but not yet had its status read by its parent process.
Bruce Zimmer
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Subject: Re: zombies/orphans (processes).
How about....
Create a process that forks another process and then goes to sleep
The "forked" process than will kill the previous parent sleeping process
Wouldn't this form an orphan?
Dave Zarnoch
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Does anyone know of away to create your own zombies/orphans in AIX/Unix.
I
want to create them intentionally for presentation purposes. thanks!.
--Justin Richard Bleistein
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