Are there conditions under which you would want a process to

Are there conditions under which you would want a process to be orphaned? If so, give an example of a good situation in which a process should be orphaned.

Solution

Yes, there are conditions under which it is desirable to make a process orphaned . Example of a situation where process should be orphaned in-order to allow a long-running job to complete without further user attention, or to start an indefinitely running service or agent; such processes (without an associated session) are known as daemons, particularly if they are indefinitely running.