Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 12:41:51 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Jason Lieurance <jason@vipersystems.biz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Zombie Process Message-ID: <3ECCFDCF.4020103@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <4306.192.168.1.155.1053612014.squirrel@vipersystems.biz> References: <4306.192.168.1.155.1053612014.squirrel@vipersystems.biz>
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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
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