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From: ravi@pds3 (Gorur R. Ravi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Zombies
Keywords: signal, SIGCLD, SIGIGN
Message-ID: <1990Feb16.164344.2648@pds3>
Date: 16 Feb 90 16:43:44 GMT
References: <2647@stl.stc.co.uk>
Reply-To: ravi@pds3.UUCP (Gorur R. Ravi)
Organization: Project Design Systems, Inc.
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In article <2647@stl.stc.co.uk> dsr@stl.stc.co.uk (David Riches) writes:
>I have a program which spawns of a new program via the use of execl
>and communicates via pipes created using dup().
>
>When this new program dies it seems to leave a Zombied process
>with <defunct> as its name in the process table.
>
>Q:  Is the new program not dying properly?

Try this. It might work!

	signal(SIGCLD, SIGIGN);

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