[pd] shell and ongoing processes

Yves Degoyon ydegoyon at free.fr
Sat May 25 21:11:16 CEST 2002


yeah, me again, fixed another problem in shell :

it could not take float arguments ( like a port number )
and i needed it.

yves

Yves Degoyon wrote:

> 6 lines of codes were added to shell.c
> to remove all these zombies.
>
> about some definitions :
>
> a zombie is a process that wants to terminate
> but cannot warn its dead father,
> so it is kept in system tables endlessly.
>
> to clean up properly, the father's got to wait
> the ending of its child before exiting.
>
> cheers,
>
> yves:
>

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