emcguire@ccad.uiowa.edu (Ed McGuire) (05/23/91)
We have an application which uses the code for allocating a pty and exec()ing on it taken from the book "Using C on the UNIX System". Sometimes the child process on the pty becomes a zombie rather than terminating properly. The parent process is watching for EOF on the pty but never gets one. The child process only terminates when the parent is killed. This behavior has been seen only under ULTRIX. The same code is reliable under Apollo Domain/OS. I admit to being largely ignorant about zombie processes. What can I do to help the developers identify and fix the problem? -- peace. -- Ed "Over here, Bones! This man's dying!" "Damn it, Jim! I'm a doctor, not a . . . What did you say?"