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From: infonode!murthy@infonode.ingr.com (Sunil Murthy)
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Subject: Detecting zombie processes
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Date: 27 Jun 91 20:22:00 GMT
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I am currently porting an application to the Sun Sparc and have the 
following question:

Is there any way on the Sun, to determine if a process is a zombie
process or not, given that I can detect that a process exists using 
the "kill (pid,0)" system call. I believe that the Sun doesnt implement
a procfs file system. 

Please respond to :
murthy@infonode.ingr.com

Thanks,

Sunil Murthy