From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 27 09:11:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA29715 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 May 1998 09:11:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xcf.berkeley.edu (scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA29692 for ; Wed, 27 May 1998 09:11:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nordwick@scam.xcf.berkeley.edu) Received: (qmail 638 invoked from network); 27 May 1998 16:13:11 -0000 Received: from ip207.san-francisco23.ca.pub-ip.psi.net (HELO scam.xcf.berkeley.edu) (38.28.61.207) by scam.xcf.berkeley.edu with SMTP; 27 May 1998 16:13:11 -0000 Message-ID: <356C3AD2.E5E8D8F8@scam.xcf.berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 09:09:54 -0700 From: Jason Nordwick X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White CC: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Killing zombie processes References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White wrote: > > Fix the offending program that zombie-ing. Add a wait() call just before > it exits to reap the children. > _exit(2) does this. (I think). > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > Jay -- 4.4 > 95 http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message