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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.cyberenet.net!twwells!bill From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) Subject: Re: Zombie processes eating up CPU time (was Re: Internet Service Provider) Organization: None, Mt. Laurel, NJ Message-ID: <D965x3.C6p@twwells.com> References: <3pqb92$lq2@pt9201.ped.pto.ford.com> <D91uu8.7J3@twwells.com> <3pub0e$ppd@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <id.PK6K1.RM7@nmti.com> Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 05:00:39 GMT Lines: 7 In article <id.PK6K1.RM7@nmti.com>, Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote: : You've already considered the option of fixing the programs so they : don't ignore SIGHUP, of course? At least one of the programs that has gone into a loop doesn't touch SIGHUP, so unless the shell is ignoring it (I don't think), the programs aren't getting SIGHUP in the first place.