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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Subject: Re: Zombie processes eating up CPU time (was Re: Internet Service Provider)
Organization: None, Mt. Laurel, NJ
Message-ID: <D965x3.C6p@twwells.com>
References: <3pqb92$lq2@pt9201.ped.pto.ford.com> <D91uu8.7J3@twwells.com> <3pub0e$ppd@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <id.PK6K1.RM7@nmti.com>
Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 05:00:39 GMT
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In article <id.PK6K1.RM7@nmti.com>, Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote:
: You've already considered the option of fixing the programs so they
: don't ignore SIGHUP, of course?

At least one of the programs that has gone into a loop doesn't
touch SIGHUP, so unless the shell is ignoring it (I don't think),
the programs aren't getting SIGHUP in the first place.