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From: bbausch@hpbbi4.BBN.HP.COM (#Bernd Bausch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: forking and zombies in SYSV.
Message-ID: <1100001@hpbbi4.BBN.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Aug 90 09:47:10 GMT
References: <1990Aug20.133107.12516@lth.se>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard GmbH
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> 
> 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.
> 

Under HP-UX, you can ignore or catch the SIGCLD signal. That's documented
in signal(5).

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Bernd Bausch
Hewlett-Packard Boeblingen
Germany