If the parent process ends before the child process than the INIT process will "adopt" the child process and become new parent process.
This is from my (German) operating system lecture.
@duststar: You were right, but as I already said: "With more than a bottle of wine in my head I cannot say that I am sure about what a ZOMBIE exactly is."
Now everybody will think we are ZOMBIEs or at least freaks that have nothing better to do than talk about operating system while beeing drunken
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