On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote: > They *do* terminate; a zombie is a dead process waiting for its parent to > reap it with waitForProcess. There's also some POSIX stuff you can do to > have them auto-reaped, but doing that correctly and portably is somewhat > painful.
But zombie processes do consume a row in the process table, right? If so, then it's bad to have them around. -- Felipe. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
