Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 13:21:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: Don Wilde <don@PartsNow.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ignoring SIGCHLD Message-ID: <Pine.UW2.3.95.970804131833.5993F-100000@cedb> In-Reply-To: <33E61621.42F1@PartsNow.com>
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On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Don Wilde wrote:
> When I attempted to execute, I was able to get it to work except for the
> fact that $SIG{"CHLD"} = "IGNORE"; did not cause an ACK of the signal
> which would allow the child processes to die. I'm still stuck with
With BSD you need to supply a signal handler for SIGCHLD, you can't
just ignore it. Setting the signal handler to a noop function is
all you need to do to eliminate your zombies.
Dan
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