From: David Corbin <dcorbin@...>
Date: 2002-03-06T23:13:52+09:00
Subject: Re: system creating zombies

Yohanes Santoso wrote:

>David Corbin <dcorbin@imperitek.com> writes:
>
>>I've an application I've been developing, and it is making a zombie 
>>process each time I call system().  The only reference to the subject 
>>
>
>What are you calling? Could whatever you are calling cause
>something to run in the background?
>
>YS.
>
I'm calling mount.  I'll have to check the arguments.  I'm reasonably 
sure I'm attempting to mount a device and that mount is failing (the 
other likely candidate is that I'm collecting the output from "mount" 
with no arguments).  I would think "ps" would show any child processes.