[41518] in Cypherpunks
Re: I am looking for a way to create a zombie process
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Shields)
Sun Oct 15 13:44:51 1995
From: shields@tembel.org (Michael Shields)
To: fc@all.net (Dr. Frederick B. Cohen)
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 17:41:09 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com, bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <9510151556.AA26716@all.net> from "Dr. Frederick B. Cohen" at 1995-10-15 11:56:37
> 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.
