Re: BUG: wedged processes, test program supplied

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Wed Dec 20 2006 - 00:40:32 EST


On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 21:46 -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> Somebody PLEASE try this...

I was having enough fun with cloninator (which was whitespace munged
btw).

> Normally, when a process dies it becomes a zombie.
> If the parent dies (before or after the child), the child
> is adopted by init. Init will reap the child.
>
> The program included below DOES NOT get reaped.

While true wasn't a great test recommendation :)

-Mike

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