Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> On Fri, 5 May 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > That has an unpleasant side effect: you won't see zombies in ps output.
> > > At all. If that's OK - no problems, we can do it much simpler and protect
> > > only the moment of setting PF_EXITING. If it is not...
> >
> > We need to see zombies. Sysadmins depend on being able to see zombies to
> > figure out why the process tree is full, and what blew up.
>
> Precisely. The real question being: what stuff do we actually need to keep
> so that we could see them?
>
>
1) process id
- need to prevent reallocation
2) wait status (i.e. exit status, core flag, etc.)
- needed for wait/waitpid/waitid/wait{3|4} etc.
possibly
3) resource consumption (if timeu and times aren't
folded into parent at exit())
scott lurndal
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