They get moved to the init process (parent 1) if their original parent dies. The init process should always wait on its child processes so they’ll get cleaned up then. No reboot needed.
Once they’re zombies all they really exist for is to return an exit code for their parent - they’re no longer running.
They get moved to the init process (parent 1) if their original parent dies. The init process should always wait on its child processes so they’ll get cleaned up then. No reboot needed.
Once they’re zombies all they really exist for is to return an exit code for their parent - they’re no longer running.