Zombie processes not clearing (solution)

[Steven Hartland]

Ok looks like this has been spotted before and its a kernel issue
described here:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=bausg0%2416c5%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw&rnum=13

I've made a 5.1 and 5.2 patch available from:
ftp://ftp.multiplay.co.uk/pub/games/fps/battlefield1942/patches/FreeBSD/

This affects all linux threaded apps which don't set SIGCHLD or
do an explicit wait().

    Steve
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Hartland" <killing at multiplay.co.uk>
To: <freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 8:04 PM
Subject: Zombie processes no clearing


> Usually zombie processes clear when the controlling parent quits
> but I seem to have a issue with the latest bf1942 dedicated
> server under FreeBSD where this is not the case. Each map
> change creates 2 new zombie processes and even quitting
> the entire server doesn't clear them. Am I missing something
> obvious?
>
>     Steve
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