From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-12-19T16:22:18+09:00
Subject: Re: forking with block leaves zombie procs

Hi,

At Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:54:57 +0900,
Eric Schwartz wrote:
> > 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.

If there were zombies, the parent process IS alive.  Otherwise
your system's init is broken or suspended.

-- 
Nobu Nakada