Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2020 16:13:57 -0000 (UTC)
From: chris...@astron.com (Christos Zoulas)
Message-ID: <rhbm04$57s$1...@ciao.gmane.io>
| They don't vanish, they get reparented to init(8) which then wakes up
| and reaps them.
That probably would work, approximately, but isn't what's supposed to
happen when a child's parent is ignoring SIGCHLD - the child should
skip zombie state, and simply be cleaned up.
The difference would be detectable if init were sent a SIGSTOP
(assuming that isn't one which would cause a system panic)
so it would stop reaping children (temporarily) - processes of
the type in question should not be showing up as zombies.
kre
