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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 21:52:06 -0700
From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com>
To: Arthur Alacar <art@pili.adn.edu.ph>
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Subject: Re: zoombie
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On Wed, Sep 24, 1997 at 12:19:26PM +0800, Arthur Alacar wrote:
> 
> 
> could anyone explain the cause of these zoombie processes?
> 
> how can it be avoided? why it can't be killed?
> 
> 
> |art|
> 
> 
> 

Please read wait(1) and UNIX network programming by W. Richard Stevens,
section 2.5 pages 60-61.


Josef

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