From: Paul Brannan <paul@...>
Date: 2002-03-06T23:35:10+09:00
Subject: Re: system creating zombies

On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 09:51:04AM +0900, David Corbin wrote:
> 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 
> that I can find is in the documentation for the Kernel.fork call. 
>  Certainly, it doesn't seem appropriate behavior for system().  
> 
> I'm running 1.6 on Linux.

Are you doing anything odd like ignoring SIGCHLD?  Can you write a short
test program that can reproduce the problem?

Paul