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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: What is a zombie? Date: 5 Oct 1996 16:21:54 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 28 Message-ID: <5361v2$ba@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <52a5dt$qef@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <3249D8F7.2EA39DDA@lambert.org> <52jtk1$8s@uriah.heep.sax.de> <324F080E.4BFCA0F@lambert.org> <52nr0k$baa@uriah.heep.sax.de> <32501DAC.2BEEACF9@lambert.org> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: > ] Anyway, please use send-pr to submit your patches. ;-) > > The "send-pr" system is ineffective. In particular, for those who don't use it. (I cannot find even a single PR in FreeBSD's history that has been submitted by you, Terry.) > Besides, the fix is so trivial it is beneath my level of interest > to pound it through the constipated send-pr pipe. You obviously don't know what you're talking about. I just made a stab on a sample implementation of SA_NOCLDWAIT, and it was quite a bit of work. There are a few nasty pitfalls that make it anything else than `trivial', in particular regarding the destruction of the old proc's address space. Of course, i have to accept your argument that you are not interested in this -- but then, stop bitching about it being trivial and below Your Great Level of Inspiration. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)