Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 14:11:07 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: terry@lambert.org, gjennejohn@frt.dec.com, ormonde@trem.cnt.org.br, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Zombie processes Message-ID: <199610312111.OAA26221@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199610311931.UAA17349@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Oct 31, 96 08:31:21 pm
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> > 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. I didn't say it did. I said all POSIX compliant or conformant acted this way. It was a (not very) veiled barb at FreeBSD being different just to be different. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199610312111.OAA26221>