[net.unix] Zombie processes.

rydin@ttds.UUCP (Pontus Rydin) (05/06/85)

Those of you who have the "top" program perhaps could tell me what
a "zombie"-process is.

..!decvax!mcvax!enea!ttds!rydin.

gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>) (05/07/85)

A "zombie" is a child that has terminated but has not been waited on.