$SIG{CHLD} = 'IGNORE';
man perlipc for more info.
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Peter Parker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A touch off topic, but i have a persistant program that forks off processes
>depending on the incomming requests ( lwp/ftp/and a few others )
>
> Thing thats bugging me is that when i do a 'ps ax' i get alot
> of these ' [perl <defunct>] ' showing
>
> As far as i can tell, they arent doing anything/no cpu use/no memory use, but they
>are crowding my output... any way to get rid of this?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Peter Azuolas
>
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