On Thu, 4 May 2000, kdb development wrote:
[zombies]
> > Precisely. The real question being: what stuff do we actually need to keep
> > so that we could see them?
>
> 1) process id
> - need to prevent reallocation
>
> 2) wait status (i.e. exit status, core flag, etc.)
> - needed for wait/waitpid/waitid/wait{3|4} etc.
>
> possibly
> 3) resource consumption (if timeu and times aren't
> folded into parent at exit())
Not enough. You'll get no clue on the name of binary that way. The stuff
you've mentioned is not going to be a problem - it's not in the areas
being released anyway.
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