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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!news1.erols.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: What is a zombie? Date: 30 Sep 1996 22:08:25 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <52pgcp$d93@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <52a5dt$qef@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <3249D8F7.2EA39DDA@lambert.org> <52jtk1$8s@uriah.heep.sax.de> <52ogk7$sg3@charm.il.ft.hse.nl> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E robert@il.ft.hse.nl (robert) wrote: > On a POSIX machine, ignoring SIGCHLD will automatically reap > child-processes. SIGCHLD is already ignored by default. Why should ignoring it twice have any other effect? (Well, i don't have a Posix.1 document handy, but at least, it would make no sense. If they have santioned this abuse of SIG_IGN, they are IMHO totally insane.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)