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Re: 1.3.2 : Fork + Sleep = problem

• To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
• Subject: Re: 1.3.2 : Fork + Sleep = problem
• From: Tak Ota <Takaaki dot Ota at am dot sony dot com>
• Date: 2001年7月11日 08:01:13 -0700 (PDT)
• Organization: Sony Electronics Inc.
• References: <3B4C1BF7.1807A0C7@aspen.mine.nu><20010711131906.K8578@cygbert.vinschen.de>

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On 2001年7月11日 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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