You Can’t Kill Zombie Processes - Here's Why (defunct processes) by You Suck at Programming [14:32 mins] on Apr 22, 2026 (youtu.be)

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Explanation of what a zombie process in Linux is, how to create one and what happens if there is one.

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[-] peterhorvath@mastodon.de 3 points 1 month ago

@thingsiplay Sorry you might right! In this case, I would debug the parent process and I would execute the wait() syscalls in its name, but it is hardly autimatizable and probably many people can not do that. Thanks the info!

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