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1995-10-15 - Re: I am looking for a way to create a zombie process

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From: shields@tembel.org (Michael Shields)
To: fc@all.net (Dr. Frederick B. Cohen)
Message Hash: a0c93d128480280c021c28c1bdbaf5ec8a4e665823ba017c3de924f4144cc889
Message ID: <m0t4X3e-000DgnC@yage.tembel.org>
Reply To: <9510151556.AA26716@all.net>
UTC Datetime: 1995-10-15 17:41:54 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 15 Oct 95 10:41:54 PDT

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From: shields@tembel.org (Michael Shields)
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 95 10:41:54 PDT
To: fc@all.net (Dr. Frederick B. Cohen)
Subject: Re: I am looking for a way to create a zombie process
In-Reply-To: <9510151556.AA26716@all.net>
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> Is there anyone who can give me a simple program or set of commands that
> creates a zombie process? Thanks in advance. 

Here, public domain.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int
main()
{
    if (!fork()) {
	/* Child; die. */
	exit(0);
    } else {
	/* Child dies, is zombie for ten seconds. */
	sleep(10);
	/* Reap it. */
	wait();
	/* Now no zombie. */
	sleep(10);
	exit(0);
    }
}
-- 
Shields.

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