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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)
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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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[–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

@thingsiplay Stop their parent process and the zombie will go under init, then init will stop them.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    That's what the video explains as well. Killing the parents will make init adopt and kill the children in the process. Problem is, that you might not want to stop / kill the parent process, depending on what you are doing. One should be very careful of doing so.

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