subprocess leaves child living

Rob Wolfe rw at smsnet.pl
Tue Jun 5 16:01:44 EDT 2007


Thomas Dybdahl Ahle <lobais at gmail.com> writes:

> But you can't ever catch sigkill.

There is no protection against sigkill.

> Isn't there a way to make sure the os kills the childprocess when the 
> parrent dies?

If the parent dies suddenly without any notification childprocesses
become zombies and there is no way to avoid that.

-- 
HTH,
Rob



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