On Sat, 20 Dec 1997, Rasmus Ronlev wrote:
>I'm having some trouble with the children of a process to 'DIE'. They wind
>up as zombie processes, and since the 'parrent' process is used for
>looking up DNS entries for the people logging into my mud, this gets
>pretty bad in the long run, with loads of these zombies hanging arround.
[...]
>The utility does the work it's supposed to like a charm on both Linux and
>BSD, it's just, that the zombie processes it creates is kind of.. well..
>Unwanted in most system administrators point of view :)
You have to reap your dead children. (Kind of violent, isn't it?)
Try these functions:
wait3, wait4 - wait for process termination, BSD style
wait, waitpid - wait for process termination
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