Hi! On Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 02:32:55PM +0200, Jo Even Skarstein wrote: > And one other thing about Pfork, when the child exits it leaves a zombie. > What should I do to get rid of this? My code looks something like this: Use Pwaitpid(), either directly or in a handler for SIGCHLD. A child which exits becomes a zombie if the parent hasn't yet learned the child exited. The zombie dies if the parent dies, or if the parent learned about it's "death" with Pwait()/Pwaitpid(). Ciao Thomas -- Thomas Binder (Gryf @ IRCNet) gryf@hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de PGP-key available on request! binder@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de
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