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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Does a zombie have a "valid pid"
Message-ID: <13004@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 26 May 90 07:36:21 GMT
References: <1990May25.001614.23294@athena.mit.edu> <14276:May2508:53:0790@stealth.acf.nyu.edu> <1990May25.181610.2342@athena.mit.edu>
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In article <1990May25.181610.2342@athena.mit.edu> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
>In article <14276:May2508:53:0790@stealth.acf.nyu.edu>,
>brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu writes:
>|> ... They'll be delivered, but they won't work.
>  It's a matter of semantics; I stand by what I said, because I meant
>the same thing you did.

I'm surprised you didn't point out that he also got it wrong.
The signals are successfully posted but not never delivered.