From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Dec 19 15:52:07 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id PAA21080 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 15:52:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id PAA21037 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 15:52:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA04252; Fri, 20 Dec 1996 00:51:20 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA04700; Fri, 20 Dec 1996 00:51:14 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id AAA01364; Fri, 20 Dec 1996 00:49:23 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612192349.AAA01364@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: On speaking to the undead To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 00:49:23 +0100 (MET) Cc: bugs@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199612191615.DAA16359@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Dec 20, 96 03:15:29 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Bruce Evans wrote: > The FreeBSD implementation is also correct if FreeBSD "provides > extended security controls" :-). Then it may impose further > implementation-defined restrictions on signals, including signal 0, > and it may deny the existence of some pids. It's quite reasonable > to pretend that zombie pids don't exist. :) I think we should go with what the majority of systems does. (I.e., also investigate SysV to the least.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)