Detecting zombie processes

Sunil Murthy infonode!murthy at infonode.ingr.com
Fri Jun 28 06:22:00 AEST 1991


I am currently porting an application to the Sun Sparc and have the 
following question:

Is there any way on the Sun, to determine if a process is a zombie
process or not, given that I can detect that a process exists using 
the "kill (pid,0)" system call. I believe that the Sun doesnt implement
a procfs file system. 

Please respond to :
murthy at infonode.ingr.com

Thanks,

Sunil Murthy





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