os.fork on linux defunct

[Cameron Simpson]

On 30Jul2010 15:09, Ray <rui.vapps at gmail.com> wrote:
| On Jul 30, 6:03 pm, Ray <rui.va... at gmail.com> wrote:
| > I'm running python 2.4 on linux. I use python os.fork run tcpdump, but
| > after I kill the forked process (tcpdump) in linux it shows defunct
[...]
| > after I call kill() it will kill tcpdump (capture will stop) but on
| > linux, ps shows tcpdump as defunct process
| > what am I missing?
| > thanks for any help.
| 
| I think I found it. need to call os.wait()

Yep. "defunct" == "zombie". See:

  http://code.activestate.com/lists/python-list/580569/

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