orphan process

<operating system>

A Unix process whose original parent has terminated and which has become a child of "init(1)".

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Last updated: 1996-05-29

Nearby terms:

ORM ♦ orphaned i-node ♦ orphan process ♦ ORTHOCARTAN ♦ orthogonal ♦ orthogonal instruction set

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