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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: What is a zombie?
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 12:22:23 -0700
Organization: Me
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References: <52a5dt$qef@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <3249D8F7.2EA39DDA@lambert.org> <52jtk1$8s@uriah.heep.sax.de> <52ogk7$sg3@charm.il.ft.hse.nl>
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robert wrote:
] 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.
Exactly. SIG_DFL != SIG_IGN.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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