Author: Unknown
Subject: zombie reap
Date: Thursday, 26 Nov 2020, 16:37:26

Why is the status of "a | b | echo & " 2? I get Completed: XXXX (2) as the result of this command? Also which individual simple is being backgrounded? or are all three stages backgrounded? As a result, which processes status is being reported in waitpid while reaping zombies?