{"version":"2.1.247","anchor":"new-ehostdead-job-error-code-and-zombie-process-detection","canonical_anchor":"new-ehostdead-job-error-code-and-zombie-process-detection","heading":"New EHOSTDEAD job error code and zombie process detection","tier":"internal","area":"Background Tasks","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.247\/e\/new-ehostdead-job-error-code-and-zombie-process-detection","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.247","markdown":"### New `EHOSTDEAD` job error code and zombie process detection\n\nBackground jobs report a dead-host error code, and zombie processes no longer count as alive.\n\n**What**\n\nBackground jobs can now report `EHOSTDEAD` when their host process is gone. The liveness probe also recognises a zombie process before it will call a pid alive.\n\n**Details**\n\n- `EHOSTDEAD` added to the job error-code map, to the classifier that returns `\"ehostdead\"`, and to the pattern grouping it with `ESTALLED` and `EUNVERIFIED`.\n\n**Evidence**\n\n`EHOSTDEAD`\n\n- Area: Background Tasks\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5"}