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A zombie process is a process that has terminated but whose parent process has not yet called the wait() system call to reclaim its exit status, and it appears as state Z in ps output.
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Relevance
8/9/2026
First Seen
Sources
witr：一键追溯进程根源的开源诊断工具
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