Re: [MiNT] Zombi in U:/kern

[Olivier Landemarre <olivier.landemarre@utbm.fr>]

Patrice Mandin wrote:

> Le Tue, 14 Mar 2006 22:40:21 +0100
> "olivier.landemarre@utbm.fr" <Olivier.Landemarre@utbm.fr> a écrit:
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> > What are possible reasons that a software stay in U:/kern after it
> > done a Pterm() in U:/proc of course this process is deleted.
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> Maybe because the program that ran it (its parent process) has not read
> its return value. This is the most known cause for zombie programs under
> Unix systems. If you have one, see 'man wait' and 'man waitpid'. Related
> MiNT functions are Pwait(), Pwait3() and Pwaitpid().
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This is exactly this, perfect answer.

Thanks

Olivier