An orphan process is a computer process whose parent process has finished or terminated, though it remains running itself. == Unix-like == In a Unix-like operating system any orphaned process will be immediately adopted by an implementation-defined system process: the kernel sets the parent to this process.
An orphan process is a computer process whose parent process has finished or terminated, though it remains running itself. == Unix-like == In a Unix-like operating system any orphaned process will be immediately adopted by an implementation-defined system process: the kernel sets the parent to this process.
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