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Ghost Code Processes That No Longer Exist Yet Still Run
Introduction In operating systems, death is not always final. A process may terminate its execution, release most of its resources, and yet continue to “exist” in a suspended, ghost-like state. These so-called zombie processes are not active in the traditional sense they do not consume CPU cycles or execute instructions but they remain recorded…
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Zombie Processes: Dead Code That Still Haunts the System
In operating systems, not every threat is loud. Some are silent, subtle, and buried deep in the process table. Zombie processes fall exactly into that category: tasks that have already finished execution but refuse to disappear. They’re technically dead, yet still present a residue of poor process management that can grow into a system-wide…