systemd process leaves its child process a zombie state
Issue
- A process that the parent process is systemd (PPID is 1) is in a zombie state.
- Why does the systemd ignore the zombie child process?
F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND
0 <UID> <PID> 1 20 0 0 0 do_exi Zsl ? 18:57 [sawserver] <defunct>
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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