On Wednesday, Jun 16, 2004, at 10:39 Canada/Eastern, Craig A. Finseth wrote: > [...] the _definition_ of a zombie is a process whose parent exited > without waiting for the child to exit. [...] I think you're confusing a zombie <http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?zombie+process> with an orphan <http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?orphan+process>. <0x0192>