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From: mike@enmasse.UUCP (Mike Schloss)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Zombies ???
Message-ID: <485@enmasse.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Dec-86 18:18:54 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  8 18:18:54 1986
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In article <1327@brl-adm.ARPA> larry@MITRE.arpa (Larry Henry) writes:
>Does anyone out there have a clear understanding of exactly what
>situations create zombie processes ?? Or any reading material I
>can look at.

	The following hold true for Sys V.  Don't know about the others.
	When a process exits a zombie is created unless SIGCLD is set to
	SIG_IGN.  This is described (smewhat poorly) in the WARNING
	section of signal(2).