Does Linux process exist information leakage?

[Rik van Riel]

On 01/11/2012 01:44 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:

> When a linux process dies, it first becomes a zombie and the parent process is signaled.
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> The parent process at that point can still do various things.  If the parent is a debugger, it can get all sorts of details from the zombie.
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> When the parent acknowledges the death of child signal, the zombie is really killed and removed from the system tables, etc.

The memory of a process is freed before it becomes a zombie.