> Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > The auto-reaping is standard SysV behavior, while BSD is really ignore.
>
> You'll recall the ECHILD exception was installed by Tatsuo after seeing
> problems on Solaris. Evidently Solaris uses the auto-reap behavior too.
SVr4/Solaris took the SysV behavior. Steven's didn't like it. :-)
> I'm somewhat surprised that HPUX does not --- it tends to follow its
> SysV heritage when there's a conflict between that and BSD practice.
> Guess they went BSD on this one.
I thought HPUX was mostly SysV tools on BSD kernel.
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