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child may redirect standard file descriptors to the socket and call
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\funnm{exec}() -- that is how \texttt{inetd} works.
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\item As you already know, by calling \funnm{waitpid}() you are getting rid of
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zombies. This only works because the \texttt{WNOHANG} flag is used,
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zombies. This only works in this case because the \texttt{WNOHANG} flag is used,
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otherwise the parent would be blocked and the next connection would only be
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accepted after one of the children exited.
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Another way is to set to ignore \texttt{SIGCHLD} in which case you

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