From: Eric Schwartz <eric.schwartz@...>
Date: 2002-12-19T15:54:57+09:00
Subject: Re: forking with block leaves zombie procs

nobu.nokada@softhome.net writes:
> If you don't need the exit status, prepend this line.
> 
>   trap("CHLD") {Process.wait(-1, Process:WNOHANG)}

But, AIUI, that wouldn't kick in if the parent process has exited before
child process dies, which is the case here.  I thought init was supposed
to reap them in that case, but it doesn't appear to be doing so, since
I can generally go to the machine at any point and see tons of zombies
lying around there.

-=Eric
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