Zombie Process - Examples

Examples

Synchronously waiting for the specific child processes in a (specific) order may leave zombies present longer than the above-mentioned "short period of time". It is not necessarily a program bug.

#include #include #include int main(void) { pid_t pids; int i; for (i = 9; i >= 0; --i) { pids = fork; if (pids == 0) { sleep(i+1); _exit(0); } } for (i = 9; i >= 0; --i) waitpid(pids, NULL, 0); return 0; }

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