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Subject: Re: BUG: wedged processes, test program supplied
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 21:46 -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> Somebody PLEASE try this...

I was having enough fun with cloninator (which was whitespace munged
btw).

> Normally, when a process dies it becomes a zombie.
> If the parent dies (before or after the child), the child
> is adopted by init. Init will reap the child.
> 
> The program included below DOES NOT get reaped.

While true wasn't a great test recommendation :)

	-Mike