Bloomberg LP Interview Question for Software Engineer / Developers






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When a child process exits and if parent process is not waiting to receive exit status of it, the child process is termed as Zombie process. This process continues to exist in process table, its PID is not freed even though it has terminated.

If parent process exits before child process, the child process is called as orphan process. This process is put directly under the INIT process and its parent process ID becomes 1. There is slight difference between zombie and orphan that is zombie process's parent may not have exited while orphan process's parent has terminated.

- R@M3$H.N October 03, 2014 | Flag Reply
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"zombie" state is setting an internal status bit so the object acts sort of like it's dead even though it is technically still alive.
used during constructor failures..

- T August 01, 2010 | Flag Reply
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zombie kind of state where the creator process of a child process is gone before child is actually exit.

The parent to parent takes care of child in this case

- sridhar August 07, 2010 | Flag Reply
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That is orphan process...

- Karthik Raj September 08, 2010 | Flag Reply
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@karthik
Jombie is not an orphan process.

- surendra October 19, 2010 | Flag
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Zombie process is a process which has completed its execution but is having entry in process table waiting for parent process to call wait() on it and receive child exit status.

- Akshat October 10, 2010 | Flag Reply
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Zombie is a process that has exited but its exite code has not been collected by the parent.

- orangetime23 May 20, 2013 | Flag Reply


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