Multiprocessing zombie processes

[Navkirat Singh]

OK I wanted zombie processes and have been able to regenerate them with multiprocessing. Now lets see how I can handle them. 
Nav

On 25-Jul-2010, at 4:37 AM, Navkirat Singh wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have been meddling around with forking and multiprocessing. Now both of them spawn new processes from parent (atleast from what I have understood). I have been able to reproduce a zombie state in a fork with:
> 
> import os,time
> 
> print('before fork',os.getpid())
> 
> pid = os.fork()
> 
> if pid:
> 	print('child: ',pid)
> 	time.sleep(120)
> 
> Now doing a ps ax | grep <pid> I can find a zombie child process, but I am not being able to reproduce the same with multiprocessing. Am I missing something? Or multiprocessing does not have the zombie problem?
> 
> Regards,
> Nav