From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 22 09:41:56 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0823737B401 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 09:41:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out001.verizon.net (out001pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3337443F75 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 09:41:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([129.44.60.214]) by out001.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20030522164154.JMTG12592.out001.verizon.net@mac.com>; Thu, 22 May 2003 11:41:54 -0500 Message-ID: <3ECCFDCF.4020103@mac.com> Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 12:41:51 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Lieurance References: <4306.192.168.1.155.1053612014.squirrel@vipersystems.biz> In-Reply-To: <4306.192.168.1.155.1053612014.squirrel@vipersystems.biz> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.75.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out001.verizon.net from [129.44.60.214] at Thu, 22 May 2003 11:41:54 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Zombie Process X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 16:41:56 -0000 Jason Lieurance wrote: [ ... ] Zombie processes are mostly harmless: they are a process which has finished and is sticking around because their parent hasn't reaped their exit status. Have the parent process do a wait()... -Chuck