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From: long@castor.csg.uiuc.edu (Junsheng Long)
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Subject: How to clear zombie children while parent still alive.
Keywords: process termination. zombies
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Date: 27 Mar 90 16:46:32 GMT
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Is that possible to clear all zombie children while the parent
is still in execution under SunOS? I had the parent process to call
signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN). This should let init to clear the
terminated child automaitically, when the parent got a SIGCHLD.
But SunOS still kept all the zombies until the parent exited. 
Is SunOS different from other Unix systems in this regard? 
Is it possible to clear zombies in a SunOS environment? And how?

Thank you.

Junsheng