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Technically, you can get some metadata from processes that have exited until their parent has acknowledged their death (while they're still in the zombie stage). But shells always acknowledge the death of their children as soon as they die as long as they themselves are still running. If they're gone the death will be acknowledged by init (or the child subreaper). If the shell is suspended, you'll be able to inspect some of the processes metadata in /proc/<pid> or from ps

Stéphane Chazelas
– Stéphane Chazelas

2022-08-20 08:46:16 +00:00
Commented Aug 20, 2022 at 8:46

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