How to clean out Zombies?

[Ken Weaverling]

In article <1990Jul21.031957.7141 at virtech.uucp> cpcahil at virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>Essentially what you need to do is call wait() as some point which will
>clean up the zombies.  You can set up your daemon to get a signal whenever
>a child exits and you can then do the wait() which won't block.
>
The SYS V 3.1 box I have has an easier way to do it. Just set SIGCLD to SIG_IGN
in the parent process and have the child exit with exit(). No zombies!

That info was in the man page for signal and sigset.
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Ken Weaverling (insert any job title here, except for official spokesperson)
Delaware Technical & Community College --- weave at sun.udel.edu