forking and zombies in SYSV.

[#Bernd Bausch]

> 
> I want to fork, and the parentprocess should continue without
> doing a wait().
> When the child exits, it is transformed into a zombieprocess.
> The zombie exists until the parent exits.
> This is as it should be according to SVID.
> 

Under HP-UX, you can ignore or catch the SIGCLD signal. That's documented
in signal(5).

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Bernd Bausch
Hewlett-Packard Boeblingen
Germany