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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)

submitted 4 days ago by thingsiplay@lemmy.ml to c/linux@programming.dev

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Video: https://youtu.be/6VH_aDNF6JU

Source Code → github.com/bahamas10/ysap/tree/main/code/2026-04-22-zombie-process

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 1 points 4 days 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!