Re: Zombie processes

Chris Wedgwood (cw@ix.net.nz)
Wed, 11 Feb 1998 17:00:27 +1300


Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 18:18:19 -0800 (PST)
From: "B. James Phillippe" <bryan@terran.org>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@ix.net.nz>
cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, spirilis@mindmeld.dyn.ml.org
Subject: Re: Zombie processes

On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

> This is done when the parent calls wait, wait3 or wait4. (Hmm - why is
> there no wait2?). The value returned to the parent will tell how the
> process

Because there is no wait() function with two arguments. :)

Ahh... hence, dup & dup2.

Simple really. Obvious once its pointed out (but isn't everything?)

-Chris

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