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The Windows Shutdown crapfest (2006)
A zombie is a process which has terminated but has not been waited for by its parent.
SIGKILLing a process blocked in an uninterruptible system call does not create a zombie.
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SIGKILLing a process blocked in an uninterruptible system call does not create a zombie.