zombie n. [Unix] A process that has died but has not yet relinquished its process table slot (because the parent process hasn't executed a wait(2) for it yet).

zombie n.

[Unix] A process that has died but has not yet
relinquished its process table slot (because the parent process
hasn't executed a wait(2) for it yet). These can be seen in
ps(1) listings occasionally. Compare orphan.

Related:

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• orphan n. [Unix] A process whose parent has died;
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• fork bomb: [UNIX] n. A particular species of {wabbit} that can be written in one line of C (`main() {for(;
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