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- From: ransom@perelandra.austin.ibm.com (Jeff Peek)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: Help: child processes not exiting properly.
- Keywords: n
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.191625.2765@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 19:16:25 GMT
- References: <1992Nov10.022021.1423@mlogic.uucp>
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- The parent must either issue a wait system call (wait3, waitpid or wait), or the
- parent must set the action for the SIGCHLD signal to SIG_IGN. Otherwise the process
- table entry for the child (and that is all that is left) will continue to hang
- around waiting for the parent to collect the exit status.
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- >
- >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.]
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- Jeff Peek
- AIX Operating System Architecture -- IBM Personal Systems Programming
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