Villy Kruse wrote:
>
> If the parent process is 1 the init process will take care of harvesting
> the exit status. If it doesn't do that then either the process isn't a
> zombie (defunct) yet, or the init process got stuck doing something else.

I think that was my point. It would be a bug.

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