On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 08:40:38PM +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Only if you're running uniprocessor on an SMP motherboard.
>
> Last time I tried this (2.1.9x or so), all my processes went zombie.
> I bought a new pair of processors shortly afterwards, so I haven't
> tried it since. Does anyone actually test that this works or is it
> merely assumed?
I had the a similar problem around the same time. Any process that
reaped its children with wait4 would create loads of zombies with
PPID 0.
Regards,
Damien Miller
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