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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 15:37:38 +0200
From: Jacinto Moreno Parra <jmoreno@sdigital.es>
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I have a license of FreeBSD 2.2.2.

If you compile and execute the server.c and client.c files.

$ server&
$ ls | client

the output of ls command is send to the server and then back to the
client to print.

This is a example of a book.

But i have a problem when the server (fork) finish it is a zombie
process, i wonder why?.

Best Regards


Jacinto Moreno

Note: I create the pthread library libc_r, to write threads programs but
i don't make the world.