Hi,

On 4/3/23 22:38, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> Presumably because its parent might eventually issue the expected wait.
>
> Should I presume it won't be handed over to PID1 until its parent dies?
>
> But it will be handed over when that happens?

It'll terminate when the parent process terminates with ^C. The shell waits
for the original process (the parent). It doesn't wait for the child to exit.
But I repeat, this is the case of a zombie process.

Aitor.