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What is a zombie interval?

  1. The interval between child terminating and the parent calling wait()

  2. The interval between parent terminating and the child calling popen()

  3. The interval between parent terminating and the child termination

  4. None
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Explanation

A zombie process is a terminated process that still has an entry in the process table. The zombie interval is the time duration between the child process terminating and its parent process calling wait() to collect its exit status.

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