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Subject: misc/18530: Linux emulator does not reap zombies by default
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>Number:         18530
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Linux emulator does not reap zombies by default
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat May 13 07:20:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Mike Harding
>Release:        4.0-S
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD netcom1.netcom.com 4.0-STABLE FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE #0: Wed May 10 12:35:26 PDT 2000     mvh@netcom1.netcom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/MIKEIPF  i386

>Description:
Linux emulation does not reap zombies by default - Linux does.  Various
Linux binaries can then spew lots of zombies.  While the right fix is
to fix the binaries, this isn't always possible and makes advocacy hard.
"Yeah it runs Linux binaries - oops the system crashed".  There are some
threads on this I found in deja news...
>How-To-Repeat:
Wordperfect is supposed to cause this problem.
>Fix:
Have the linux emulator ignore SIGCHLD by default, I think?

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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