Orphan Process
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What is a Zombie Process?
A zombie process is a process that has finished execution but still has an entry in the process table because its parent has not yet read its exit status.
What is an Orphan Process?
An orphan process is a still-running child process whose parent has terminated before it, causing the operating system to reparent it to the init process (PID…
How Does Process Creation and the Process Hierarchy Work?
A process is created when an existing parent process calls a system call like fork (Unix) or CreateProcess (Windows), producing a child process with its own PI…