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From: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Killing zombie processes
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On Tue, 26 May 1998, Doug White wrote:

> Fix the offending program that zombie-ing.  Add a wait() call just before
> it exits to reap the children.

Hmmm, how would you achieve this on a serial port, running a sh or bash
process?

Regards,

d.

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