From: David Corbin <dcorbin@...>
Date: 2002-03-07T00:35:57+09:00
Subject: Re: system creating zombies (Oops!)

Paul Brannan wrote:

>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
>
Well, I went to build the test program, and found myself a liar.  I was 
doing a piped open and not closing the stream.  Sorry for the bad report.

David