 Such an "orphan process" becomes a child of a special "root process", which then waits for the child process to terminate.Likewise, a similar strategy is used to deal with a "zombie process", which is a child process that has terminated but whose exit status is ignored by its parent process.Such a process becomes the child of a special parent process, which retrieves the child's exit status and allows the operating system to complete the termination of the dead process.