<defunct> processes (was Re: Trouble killing processes in SysV/AT)

[Tim Ramsey]

In article <9349 at sol.ARPA> jpayne at cs.rochester.edu (Jonathan Payne) writes:
>
>If the parent dies before waiting for any of it's children, it becomes
>the responsibility of the parent of the parent to do the waiting, which
>is usually init(8).  ...

Wrong.  When a process dies, init(8) inherits its children.  There is no
notion of "grandparent" in UNIX.

Tim Ramsey
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