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On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote:

> Have we this utility under FreeBSD ?
> 
> >>Use the crash utility if you have that under BSD to get a stack trace of the
> >>zombie process. 

Why would you want to backtrace a zombie process?  It's dead/finished, but
it's parent hasn't wait()ed for it yet. See wait(2) for details.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
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