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Date:      Thu, 31 Oct 1996 20:31:21 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        gjennejohn@frt.dec.com, ormonde@trem.cnt.org.br, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Zombie processes
Message-ID:  <199610311931.UAA17349@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199610311843.LAA25711@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Oct 31, 96 11:43:13 am"

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As Terry Lambert wrote:

> 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.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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