• TheTechnician27
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    8 days ago

    Parents killing reaping their zombie children was a favorite one of mine.

    • @fubo
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      108 days ago

      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.)

      • TheTechnician27
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        78 days ago

        Haha, yup, you’re right; had a brain fart.

    • Skull giver
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      78 days ago

      It happens rarely, but I felt pretty weird after finding out I needed to reap zombie orphans after the parent has died.