Re: Failure to kill pid

["Christopher T. Lansdown" <lansdoct screech cs alfred edu>]

John,
	When a child is killed, the parent must wait() on the child before
the child is cleared from the process table.  IIRC the easiest way to do
this is to install a signal handler for SIGCHLD and then have it call
wait().  This should clear out any zombies created.
	-Chris

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