<defunct> processes

[michael sweet]

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In order to clear out those defunct child processes, the parent has to:
  1) die.
  2) issue a wait() call to get the return status.

Many versions of UNIX have the wait3() system call, which is basically
a non-blocking wait() call with a few extra arguments.

 -Mike Sweet

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