Defunct Processes With subprocess.Popen

[John Abel]

Hi!

I'm currently writing a script which launches external programs, but it 
keeps leaving zombie/defunct processes behind, until I kill the 
launching script, which is a bit of a pain, as it's supposed to be a 
daemon.  The code I'm using is:

newPid = subprocess.Popen( cmdLine[ 1: ], executable=cmdLine[ 0 ], 
close_fds=True ).pid

I've tried calling it using the shell=True flag, but that leaves a 
zombie for the sh, instead.  I'm not interested in any output, the only 
thing I need returning, is the pid of the new process.  I've tried using 
spawn*, with the same results.  Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

J