> -----Original Message----- > From: Ahmed Moustafa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 11:45 AM > To: Bob Showalter; 'Sudarshan Raghavan'; Perl beginners > Subject: Re: How does ZOMBIE/defunct affect the system? > > ... > All I need to do is to reap the dead processes without > blocking the program. > (Also I don't want to ignore the children with using $SIG{CHLD} = > 'IGNORE';). >
Then you should call wait() inside a SIGCHLD handler. That's what SIGCHLD is for. See the examples in perldoc perlipc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
