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\end {slide }
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\begin {itemize }
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- \item After the process is terminated either using an \texttt {exit } call or as a
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- consequence of a signal, it will transition to a zombie state as the kernel
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- needs to store a return value for the process. The whole memory of the process is
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- freed, the only remaining piece is the \texttt {proc } structure. The process can
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- go away for good only after its parent will retrieve its return value using the
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- \texttt {wait } call. If the original parent is no longer available, the
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+ \item After the process is terminated either using the \texttt {\_ exit } call
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+ or as a consequence of a signal, it will transition to a zombie state as the
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+ kernel needs to store a return value for the process. The whole memory
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+ of the process is freed, the only remaining piece is the \texttt {proc }
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+ structure. The process can go away for good only after its parent will
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+ retrieve its return value using the \texttt {wait } call.
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+ If the original parent is no longer available, the
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\texttt {init } process which became the new parent will call \texttt {wait }.
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\item In today's Unix systems processes are usually not swapped out as whole,
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