Difference between revisions of "Orphan"
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| − | An orphan is a parentless child, both in the real world and in UNIX. When a [[process]] gets orphaned it will take [[init]] (process 1) as its parent. | + | An orphan is a parentless child, both in the real world and in UNIX. When a [[process]] gets orphaned it will take [[init]] (process 1) as its parent. |
| + | If you're unfortunate enough to have a <zombie> (ps) process on your host, you can just ignore it until the next time your machine is power cycled. | ||
