Re: zombies (was Re: What does a task with priority -1 mean?)

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From: Jess Anderson
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 02:31

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In article <1992Nov10.183316.6169@menudo.uh.edu>
sears@tree.egr.uh.edu writes:

>Zombies stick around until a crash or reboot.  Logging out will not "clean"  
>the system of any zombied processes...

Having just tried this, I can report that *immediately* following
a reboot, then logging in as myself, opening a Stuart window,
and doing a ps aux, all as quickly as I can, I find five zombies
already.  Now why is that?  (fyi, 040 cube NS 3.0).

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Subject: Re: zombies (was Re: What does a task with priority -1 mean?)
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