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Re: zsh hangs sometimes continued.



On 2011-04-01 at 07:18 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> Reading the explanation left me wondering whether there's an additional
> problem in the event that the shell is spawning processes fast enough
> for the PID of a terminated-but-not-yet-reaped job to have been re-used
> in a new still-running job?

Is this an April Fool's joke?  [suffering flu, can't tell]

If it's not yet reaped, then it's a zombie and still using a slot in the
process table and the pid can't have been reused.  Surely.



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