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From: ables@lot.ACA.MCC.COM (King Ables)
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Subject: Re: How to clear zombie children while parent still alive.
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Date: 27 Mar 90 17:48:22 GMT
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From article <1990Mar27.164632.18462@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, by long@castor.csg.uiuc.edu (Junsheng Long):
> Is that possible to clear all zombie children while the parent
> is still in execution under SunOS?

Check the wait3() system call.  The child process stays in the process
table as a zombie until the parent waits on it and gets some indication
that it's died.  Yes, in your case you probably don't care.  Neither did
I, so I just called wait3(0,WNOHANG,0) to clear the condition on all
child zombie processes.
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