From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 31 11:57:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA02715 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 11:57:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA02710 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 11:57:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id LAA01131 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 11:54:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id UAA06672; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 20:51:37 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA05260; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 20:51:31 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id UAA17349; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 20:31:21 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610311931.UAA17349@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Zombie processes To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 20:31:21 +0100 (MET) Cc: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com, ormonde@trem.cnt.org.br, hackers@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199610311843.LAA25711@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Oct 31, 96 11:43:13 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)