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From: fsb@vitro.uucp (Steve Brailsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: unix Pcomm problems
Keywords: Pcomm problems
Message-ID: <1991Jan4.133015.13218@vitro.uucp>
Date: 4 Jan 91 13:30:15 GMT
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In <1033@pdxgate.UUCP> brians@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Brian Smith) writes:

>I have ISC 2.2, and a Hayes compatible 2400bps modem (Courier 2400).  I never
>had any difficulty in getting pcomm to run.  The version which I am using
>is actually a little behind in bug patches, but I've never had any problems
>(other than pcomm never wait(2)'ing on the spawned down/upload processes,
>creating zombies).

Is there any fix to these zombies?  I am now using pcomm 1.2.10
and I used to get zombies all the time with patchlevel 9.  I
was hoping 10 would have a fix, but I didn't see anything that
might do it.
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