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From: kraig@milton.acs.washington.edu (Kraig Eno)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: <defunct> processes
Message-ID: <3325@milton.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 7 May 90 22:54:33 GMT
Reply-To: kraig@milton.acs.washington.edu (Kraig Eno)
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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I am trying to make a server process that forks a child whenever a request
comes in.  It works great, except that the children never go away, they
show on a "ps -ax" as <defunct>.  They stay forever, unless I kill and
restart the server.  Anybody have ideas on what that means and how to
properly terminate a child process?

Kraig Eno, kraig@biostr.washington.edu
Structural Informatics Group
Biological Structure, University of Washington