On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 06:53:46PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: [cut]
> > OK, I admit it might had been a tad too cryptic, but my intentions > were good. What I mean is that the parent has to set a handler for > SIGCHLD, and the handler has to call wait() [or waitpid(-1, &status)] > to reap the dead child. The handler must be set *before* any of the > children is ever spawn, otherwise there is still a concrete chance to > create zombies. > > If your parent process handles SIGCHLD correctly, you can also force > reaping by sending it a SIGCHLD with the kill command. > To make things more clear, here is a minimal example: http://www.linuxprogrammingblog.com/code-examples/SIGCHLD-handler Beware that in this case the children do nothing (they just exit immediately), and the final while(sleep(1)) is not required. My2Cents KatolaZ -- [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
