From: Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@caution.cistron.nl.mugnet.org)
Date: 05/21/93


From: miquels@caution.cistron.nl.mugnet.org (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
Subject: Re: Zombie processes
Date: 21 May 1993 08:20:44 GMT

In article <227.2BFA9179@purplet.demon.co.uk> jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk (Mike Jagdis) writes:
>* In message <1ta2dl$irf@irz401.inf.tu-dresden.de>, Andre Fuechsel said:
>
>AF> >Unfortunetly processes do not die correctly, I even have a second
>AF> >process (init) <zombie> uid=2 in the table apart from all other
>AF> >processes that do not die correctly.
>AF> >I would appreciate any hints to track down the problem!
>
>Or change to the bootsys init which *does* work as you might reasonably
>expect!
>
> Mike

Or use a more recent version of the SysV init. I think 1.2 is the SLS
version. 1.3 already solved this problem (I think) and 1.4 will be
out next week. (With much neat features!)

Mike.