Post #1665485
2026-01-15 07:31 UTC
they can be automatically moved to have parent 1 or something like that, so only way to kill them is a reboot. But personally I am yet to setup a stationary (uh, not a laptop) computer and see how it works for me without poweroff at the end of the day
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@asret@lemmy.zip 2026-01-15 08:14
They get moved to the init process (parent 1) if their original parent dies. The init process should always wait on its child processes so they'll get cleaned up then. No reboot needed. Once they're zombies all they really exist for is to return an exit code for their parent - they're no longer running.