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minus-squareTheTechnician27@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·edit-29 days agoParents killing reaping their zombie children was a favorite one of mine.
minus-squarefubo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·9 days agoYou don’t kill zombies; a zombie is already dead. You wait for or reap zombies. (A zombie process is just a process table entry with its exit status; it goes away once the parent process has read that exit status.)
minus-squareTheTechnician27@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·9 days agoHaha, yup, you’re right; had a brain fart.
minus-squareSkull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up7·8 days agoIt happens rarely, but I felt pretty weird after finding out I needed to reap zombie orphans after the parent has died.
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killingreaping their zombie children was a favorite one of mine.You don’t kill zombies; a zombie is already dead. You wait for or reap zombies. (A zombie process is just a process table entry with its exit status; it goes away once the parent process has read that exit status.)
Haha, yup, you’re right; had a brain fart.
It happens rarely, but I felt pretty weird after finding out I needed to reap zombie orphans after the parent has died.