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Date:      Thu, 6 Mar 1997 10:39:26 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@scotty.masternet.it>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Does FreeBSD has crash utility ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970306103745.2046H-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970307172516.0073dd50@scotty.masternet.it>

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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
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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