Sending signals to Zombies

[c***@CSIC.UMD.EDU]

What if a user
program tries to
send a signal to a
zombie ( some signal
other than sigkill )

It will never get to
its signal handler
as it wont get the
quantum anymore, do
we need to print out
some sort of a
failure or error
message for this ?

[Adel Youssef]

A zobmie process is considered dead. This should be treated the same as
sending a signal to non-existing PID.
Adel

Post by c***@CSIC.UMD.EDU
What if a user
program tries to
send a signal to a
zombie ( some signal
other than sigkill )
It will never get to
its signal handler
as it wont get the
quantum anymore, do
we need to print out
some sort of a
failure or error
message for this ?