On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:27, Felipe Almeida Lessa <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Brandon Allbery <[email protected]> > wrote: > > They *do* terminate; a zombie is a dead process waiting for its parent to > > reap it with waitForProcess. There's also some POSIX stuff you can do to > > have them auto-reaped, but doing that correctly and portably is somewhat > > painful. > > But zombie processes do consume a row in the process table, right? If > so, then it's bad to have them around. Yes, and they count against the per-uid process limit. -- brandon s allbery [email protected] wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms
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