Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 14:28:14 -0600 From: Randy Berndt <rberndt@nething.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Cap'n, there be Zombies here! Message-ID: <199511192122.PAA23682@vellocet.insync.net>
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I am having a problem with a process generating zombies on a 2.0.5R system.
The process forks, and the child queues up a print file to a specific printer:
sprintf(qcommand, "lp -c -d %s %s;rm %s;exit 0", printername,
filename, filename);
execlp("/bin/sh", "sh", "-c", qcommand, 0);
exit(0);
It appears this code is generating the zombies.
Questions:
How does a zombie get created anyway?
How can I examine a zombie to verify where it is coming from?
Does anything in the code look wrong?
Thanks.
Randy Berndt <rberndt@nething.com>
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