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cc100aa@xray.gatech.edu (Ray Spalding) writes:
>To avoid zombies, a UNIX process doing a fork (a parent process)
>must reap it's child(ren).  This is done by some varient of the
>wait(2) system call, and it may be helpful to install a SIGCHLD
>handler.  The man pages seem to imply that wait() is an optional
>feature, but failure to call it will result in a zombie.

I think this description isn't quite correct, but I may be wrong: You
only get a zombie, when the parent exits without wait(2)ing for its
childs. When you can be shure, that the children die before the
parent, you don't need to wait(2), but you may for other reasons.
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