Comments on: 10 ‘who’ Command Examples for Linux Newbies

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 08:38:31 +0000

In reply to Aaron Kili.

@Yousef

To add on, a dead process is a task that has completed executing or it has ended; thus it is in the dead(X) state.

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 08:35:06 +0000

In reply to Martins Almeida.

@Martins

Thanks for the concern, i should have answered the question with a detailed explanation. I will consider this next time.

By: Martins Almeida

Martins Almeida — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 12:44:08 +0000

One cannot reply to a question of what is a dead process by saying it is a process in dead state. You are replying using the same term of the question, it will not certainly satisfy who put the question.

The user probably wants to know whether a dead process is a process that ended or a process that was definitely removed (uninstalled) from the Linux system. It is process that was ended and it can be restarted later.

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 08:09:13 +0000

In reply to Yousef Shanawany.

@Yousef

You are most welcome. A dead process is a task that is in the dead(X) state. You can see all task states in Linux from here: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/fs/proc/array.c#L122

By: Yousef Shanawany

Yousef Shanawany — Sun, 18 Mar 2018 01:20:39 +0000

Thanks for the article! Quick question. What’s a “dead” process?