Where Is Orphan Process in Unix?
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Where is orphan process in Linux?

An orphan process is a user process, which is having init (process id – 1) as parent. You can use this command in linux to find orphan processes. You can put the last command line in a root cron job (without sudo before xargs kill -9) and let it run for instance once per hour.

What is Unix orphan process?

An orphan process is a running process whose parent process has finished or terminated. In a Unix-like operating system any orphaned process will be immediately adopted by the special init system process.

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