When a parent dies, all its children (zombie or not) are "adopted" by the init process (PID 1). The init process is a responsible guardian—it periodically checks for adopted children and performs the cleanup wait() automatically.
A “script” in cognitive psychology is a structured sequence of expected actions. Our proposed ZAPS contains three phases: beware: zombies script
Zombie enters slowly, moaning, arm outstretched. When a parent dies, all its children (zombie
top - 10:00:00 up 10 days, 1:00, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Tasks: 100 total, 1 running, 98 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie When a parent dies