Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] zombies
Date: Saturday, 21 Nov 2020, 07:50:28

    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > What does reaping zombies actually mean? How are we supposed to do this if
    > we cannot do waitpid(-1, ...) - do we have to remember all child processes
    > when calling process() in recursive calls?

To reap zombies or implement the wait command without
using wait() or waitpid(-1,...), bashLT must remember
the pid's of all processes that are backgrounded by the
shell process.

--Stan-