From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 9 17:05:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA25635 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 17:05:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA25602 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 17:05:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id BAA01819 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 01:21:28 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id BAA04837; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 01:17:42 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 01:17:42 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199712100017.BAA04837@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden 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 References: <199712082025.MAA07048@hub.freebsd.org> From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Subject: Re: dealing with zombies X-Original-Newsgroups: local.freebsd.hackers To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "J. Weatherbee - Senior Systems Architect" wrote: > As I recall under linux setting up a signal handler that excutes waitpid() > is not necessary if you are set (by default) to ignore SIGCHLD. FreeBSD now also supports `automatic' reaping of zombies, but it's not the default. Linux is about the only system where this is default (on SysV, signal(SIGCLD, SIGDFL) != signal(SIGCLD, SIG_IGN)), so it's in the responsibility of the Linuxulator to emulate this default in the Linux environment. -- 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. ;-)