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Re: Avoid Zombies (C-programmieren)

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From: Marc SCHAEFER
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 00:00
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Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <avbidder@fortytwo.ch> wrote:
> But that's UGLY!!! Is there no syscall to detach/reparent a process?

no. That's UNIX. When something can be done by using other syscalls,
you don't create a new syscall. And, moreover, most modern fork()
implementations are based on copy-on-write() operations and thus
do not cost anything.

There MIGHT be a libc call implementing it, however.

> btw, do you have the URL to the Unix Programming FAQ? (Nur wenn Du
> sie grad hast. Sonst kann ich sie auch suchen - wοΏ½re einfach
> bequemer so :-)

http://www-internal.alphanet.ch/archives/autofaq/faq/unix-faq/
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