Zombies (was: Re: What the hell is "No more room in kernel map"???)

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From: Heiko W.Rupp
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 15:46

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David Apfelbaum <da0g+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

>> Im running 3.0 here and there is a bug in the OS somewhere that spawns
>> "zombie?"
>> tasks (mach-task with a pid -1).  

>parent process not wait()'ing for a child to exit??

Yes, that's a typical Unix 'feature', not special to the NeXT.

I found out by  that every call to the nntpd leaves one zombie, so
this does not seem to be a bug in the OS, but in the applications
running on it. I'm running the nntpd 'NNTP[auth] server version 1.5.11
(10 February 1991) ' Does anyone have the same experience with it?
-- 
Heiko W.Rupp  Gerwigstr.5  7500 Kh'e 1  hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org  +49 721 693642
My mind is making ashtrays in Dayton....

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Subject: Zombies (was: Re: What the hell is "No more room in kernel map"???)
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