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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 08:01:13 -0700 (PDT)
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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>
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On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 13:19:06 +0200, Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT 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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