Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 13:58:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Killing zombie processes Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980527135806.2179K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980527151229.25576A-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au>
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On Wed, 27 May 1998, Dean Hollister wrote: > 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? Use vi to edit the bash source & rebuild it. This is a source-level function call, not a command, thus the parens() to hint it's a function call. If bash doesn't wait then it's a bug in bash. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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