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From: edler@cmcl2.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: should init inherit orphans?
Message-ID: <1277@cmcl2.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Jan-84 22:38:36 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 11 22:38:36 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Jan-84 05:50:18 EST
Organization: New York University
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Can anyone think of a reason why it is important for
init to become the "parent" of processes whose real parents
have exited without waiting for them?  It would seem simpler to
just mark such orphans in some way (set their p_ppid to 0
or their p_pptr to NULL or set a flag) so that when they exit,
they clean themselves up (i.e. they don't become zombies at all).

	Jan Edler	cmcl2!edler	(New York University)
			edler@nyu
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