On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Gary McGovern wrote:

> I believe dependents that persist after the master is destroyed are called zombies and can cause a 
> memory leak (memory filled with dead objects).

I don't think I've ever come across zombie used in that way in an OO (and
specifically, Smalltalk) context. Sun's glossary says:

"zombie: A process that has terminated but remains in the process table because 
its parent process has not sent the proper exit code. Zombie processes are
removed from the process table when a system is rebooted  and do not consume
any system resources."

Anyone?

Cheers

John 
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