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From: robert@il.ft.hse.nl (robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: What is a zombie?
Date: 30 Sep 1996 15:06:15 +0200
Organization: LSD...melts in your mind, not in your hand
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References: <52a5dt$qef@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <3249D8F7.2EA39DDA@lambert.org> <52jtk1$8s@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch):
>Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
>> fork, but doesn't call wait(2) or ignore SIGCHLD -- either of
>> which will cause the zombie to exit.
>Ignoring SIGCHLD won't help -- it is already ignored by default:
On a POSIX machine, ignoring SIGCHLD will automatically reap
child-processes.
robert