Zombies from forked thread process. Why?

[Mats Wichmann]

On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:53:01 -0400, Dave Cinege
<dcinege at psychosis.com> wrote:

:Linux 2.4, Debian 2.2/Redhat 7.1 Python 2.1.1 compiled from source.
:
:I have a daemon process that watches a directory for files. When
:some appear it decides what to do with them and then spawns a 
:processor to handle them. To be speedy it detaches (forks) a processor
:for each 'section'. Eveything run perfect, except that when the processor 
:process returns it leaves a zombie in the process tree:

Zombies are processes that have completed processing, but whose parent
has not yet collected their exit status.  Your program  needs to
"wait" for them to collect the status.


Mats Wichmann

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