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Re: 1.3.2 : Fork + Sleep = problem
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 13:19:06 +0200, Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> Since you only fork() but never wait(), your children processes
> become zombies. The zombie list per process is fixed to ... 64 entries.
Then why doesn't fork() start returning -1 when the number of zombie
reaches maximum count? And why does sleep get affected by this?
-Tak
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