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From: lasse@daab.UUCP (Lars Hammarstrand)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.unix
Subject: Re: UNIX question
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Date: Tue, 10-Dec-85 09:43:51 EST
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>I have a C program which, during the course of its execution, spawns(forks)
>child processes .....
>
>... do a 'ps', the child processes show up in the list with a 'Z' status.
>
>.. of you probably already know, these useless ex-processes can't even
>be completely gotten rid of with a 'kill' command.....



If you don't want your children to end up as (Z)ombie processes, the parent
process have to execute a wait(2) on each child that have been killed or stoped.

See also: signal(2) and kill(2).


	Lars Hammarstrand.