[TUHS] fork
Ron Natalie via TUHS
tuhs at tuhs.org
Tue May 12 20:55:09 AEST 2026
Processes stay zombines until someone waits for them. If their parent
is alive, it will have to execute a wait() to get the status. If the
parent is dead, prossess 1 (historically INIT) will becoe the parent for
the purpose of wain().
Note that there are differing SIGCHLD / SIGCLD behaviors, In addition
to the sitnal being caught telling the process that there’s something to
wait on, some systems take specifally setting SIGCHLD to SIG_IGN as an
indiation
that you don’t ever want to wait and any children when they die will
immediately go away without entering the zombine state.
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