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SubjectRe: Behavior under swap catastrophe?
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Olaf Titz once wrote:
>
> If init ever dies, the system is toast and needs the reset button.
> Even a clean shutdown is impossible, since nothing will wait() for
> exited processes, their process table slots and therefore their
> working directories remain in zombie state, and umount fails.
>

Why does a zombie process need a working directory? :)
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