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From: janm@eliot.UUCP (Jan Morales)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Need help spawning a child
Message-ID: <399@eliot.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jun 89 22:53:33 GMT
References: <1661@apt.UUCP> <873@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: janm@eliot.UUCP (Jan Morales)
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Organization: Unitech Software, Inc., Reston, VA
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In article <873@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> Greg Pasquariello writes:
>Simply use signal() to ingnore the death of a child.  In SVR3.2 this will
>have the desired effect of letting the child die without creating
>zombies.

About a year ago I moved from working primarily on System V systems to
working on BSD-derived ones.  I used to assume this was true from my
experience on System V but it appears not to be true for the SunOS 4.0.1
I work on now.  Neither "signal(SIGCLD, SIG_IGN)" nor the equivalent
sigvec() call seem to do the trick; I always get zombies that must be
waited for.  Is this true or am I missing something?

Jan
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