Multiple choice technology operating systems

Only way to kill defunct process is find the parent process id of the defunct process and then kill that parent process.

  1. True

  2. False
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Explanation

Defunct processes (zombies) are already terminated but still have an entry in the process table. They cannot be killed directly because they're already dead. The only way to clean them up is to kill or wait for their parent process, which will then reap the zombie child. This is standard Unix process behavior.

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