Best way to prevent zombie processes

[Ben Finney]

Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> writes:

> The standard trick is to make the process a grandchild instead of a
> child.  Fork, kick off subprocess, exit (the forked child).

For Cecil Westerhof's benefit: If you haven't seen it, the
‘python-daemon’ library is designed to get this, and other fiddly
aspects of daemonising the current program, correct in Python code.

    <URL:https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-daemon/>

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Ben Finney