From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 24 14:34:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA24645 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 14:34:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA24634 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 14:34:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA04087; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 14:34:16 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 14:34:16 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Tim Oneil cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: * searching a good priest for zombies processes * In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970224114755.0099f550@visigenic.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Tim Oneil wrote: > That would beg the question; how different IS BSD's process subsystem? > Comming from the Solaris and HP worlds, I would really like to know. Solaris is System V based, and SYSV has a slightly different philosophy regarding the reaping of processes than BSD variants do. A lpr replacement package I use (LPRng) is built to compile on many systems, and the solitary compile-time option is ZOMBIE which I assume addresses this problem. Unfortunately, I'm not as educated on this subject as I would like to be :), perhaps someone on the list can give you a more technical explanantion. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major