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- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!celia!mlogic!marcel
- From: marcel%mlogic.uucp@usc.edu (Marcel Samek)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Help: child processes not exiting properly.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.022021.1423@mlogic.uucp>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 02:20:21 GMT
- Sender: marcel@mlogic.uucp (Marcel Samek)
- Reply-To: marcel%mlogic.uucp@usc.edu
- Organization: Media Logic Incorporated
- Lines: 19
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- I have a problem which manifests itself under AIX 3.2, but not under other
- flavors of unix (SunOS & Mach) that I've tried.
-
- It boils down to this:
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- I create a child process with fork(). The child process decides to either
- kill() itself, or exit with exit() or _exit().
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- The result is that the child process hangs around in a limbo state (shows up as
- "defunct" when one issues a ps command).
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- My question is this: is there any way to get the child to go completely away?
-
- Marcel
- marcel%mlogic.uucp@usc.edu
-
- p.s.: [My apologies if this has been covered here before; I'm not a regular
- subscriber to this group and don't have access to any archives.]
-