On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 20:35, Jason Dagit <dag...@gmail.com> wrote: > > They *do* terminate; a zombie is a dead process waiting for its parent to > > reap it with waitForProcess. There's also some POSIX stuff you can do to > > have them auto-reaped, but doing that correctly and portably is somewhat > > painful. > > You can use a double fork to make this portable and not painful. It's > just that you have to fork twice, which can be expensive in some > cases. >
And problematic if you're using a pipe to communicate with the child, which seemed quite possible. -- brandon s allbery allber...@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms
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