How do you find the parent process of a zombie process?

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Published on 2010-05-04T13:18:56Z Indexed on 2010/05/04 13:19 UTC
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How do you find the parent process of zombie processes?

When the child process is something where the parent is not entirely obvious...

Is there some way to list processes in tree format or something?

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