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.)
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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.
Normal day in America.
Kill your kids, check out cutlery, kill yourself, kill others, visit toilet. In this order.
I really like how you have to wait until part 4 to get any historical context.