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From: kjones@talos.UUCP (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Night of the Living Dead Processes
Summary: no wait()
Keywords: brains!
Message-ID: <409@talos.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jan 89 14:21:51 GMT
References: <10927@s.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: kjones@talos.UUCP (Kyle Jones)
Organization: Philip Morris Research Center, Richmond, VA
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In article <10927@s.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
>I'm having problems with Zombies...

The problem is that your forked process has a living parent and that
parent has not wait()ed for it.  Therefore you get a zomby.