Zombies

[David Riches]

I have a program which spawns of a new program via the use of execl
and communicates via pipes created using dup().

When this new program dies it seems to leave a Zombied process
with <defunct> as its name in the process table.

Q:  Is the new program not dying properly?

Q:  How do I clean up the Z process?  When the caller eventually
    dies then all the defunct processes are cleaned up.  Since this
    is part of a design tool the nthere will be many defunct processes
    lying around before the tool is killed.

Any answers will be much appreciated.

   Dave Riches
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