From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Wed Mar 15 16:14:37 2006 X-Original-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Delivered-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Message-ID: <44182F98.1020905@utbm.fr> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:15:36 +0100 From: Olivier Landemarre User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Subject: Re: [MiNT] Zombi in U:/kern References: <1142372421.441738453c27b@webmail1.utbm.fr> <20060314233813.4ffc8306.mandin.patrice@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <20060314233813.4ffc8306.mandin.patrice@wanadoo.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by portail1.utbm.fr id k2FF9cZP029456 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-To: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: olivier.landemarre@utbm.fr Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.6 tagged_above=-50.5 required=7.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_00 X-Spam-Level: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by wh58-508.st.uni-magdeburg.de id k2FFEbmO004767 Patrice Mandin wrote: >Le Tue, 14 Mar 2006 22:40:21 +0100 >"olivier.landemarre@utbm.fr" a écrit: > > > >>What are possible reasons that a software stay in U:/kern after it >>done a Pterm() in U:/proc of course this process is deleted. >> >> > >Maybe because the program that ran it (its parent process) has not read >its return value. This is the most known cause for zombie programs under >Unix systems. If you have one, see 'man wait' and 'man waitpid'. Related >MiNT functions are Pwait(), Pwait3() and Pwaitpid(). > > This is exactly this, perfect answer. Thanks Olivier