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From: dstailey@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Doug Stailey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: forking and zombies in SYSV.
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Date: 21 Aug 90 03:31:27 GMT
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In article <1990Aug20.133107.12516@lth.se> jh@efd.lth.se (Joergen Haegg) writes:
>A question about how to fork() in SYSV.
>
>I want to fork, and the parentprocess should continue without
>doing a wait().
>When the child exits, it is transformed into a zombieprocess.
>The zombie exists until the parent exits.
>This is as it should be according to SVID.
>
>How do I avoid getting this zombie?
>
Try signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN) to avoid generating zombies.