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  1. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!taco!gatech!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!ames!decwrl!decwrl!netcomsv!dice!jth
  3. From: jth@infodyn.com (Jabba The Hutt)
  4. Subject: Re: Forking and defunct processes
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov2.223821.8642@infodyn.com>
  6. Keywords: fork, defunct
  7. Organization: Information Dynamics, Saratoga, CA, USA
  8. References: <1992Oct31.162537.20305@tc.cornell.edu>
  9. Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1992 22:38:21 GMT
  10. Lines: 11
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  12. In article <1992Oct31.162537.20305@tc.cornell.edu> reed@TC.Cornell.EDU writes:
  13. >Netters:
  14. >    I recently noticed a rather nasty problem with some code I wrote...
  15. >Well, it appears that my child processes are not properly shutting down and
  16. >leave "defunct" processes lying around.
  17.  
  18. Perhaps you have already crossed this bridge, but do you periodically
  19. call wait() or wait3()?  If not, stick in a call or two and see if it
  20. gets better.
  21.  
  22. jth@infodyn.com
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