Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 20:31:21 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com, ormonde@trem.cnt.org.br, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Zombie processes Message-ID: <199610311931.UAA17349@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199610311843.LAA25711@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Oct 31, 96 11:43:13 am"
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As Terry Lambert wrote: > Alternately, set a signal handler of SIG_IGN for SIGCHLD. This is > guaranteed to not create zombies in the first place for all POSIX > compliant or conformant OS's. You are wrong with this opinion, and you have been told this before. So please, don't confuse innocent readers by re-posting wrong opinions. Posix doesn't specify this behaviour; i.e., it neither mandates nor forbids it. -- 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. ;-)
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