Zombies ???

[Mike Schloss]

In article <1327 at brl-adm.ARPA> larry at MITRE.arpa (Larry Henry) writes:
>Does anyone out there have a clear understanding of exactly what
>situations create zombie processes ?? Or any reading material I
>can look at.

	The following hold true for Sys V.  Don't know about the others.
	When a process exits a zombie is created unless SIGCLD is set to
	SIG_IGN.  This is described (smewhat poorly) in the WARNING
	section of signal(2).