Getting rid of a <defunct> process

[Brandon S. Allbery]

As quoted from <102 at avatar.UUCP> by kory at avatar.UUCP (Kory Hamzeh):
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| I have written an application which forks and execs off many subtasks.
| The main process (the parent which does all of the forks) can not
| do a wait() because I can't get blocked for anything. Well, this results
| in a lot of "<defunct>" processes in the process table when the child
| exits.
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Add a call to signal(SIGCLD, SIG_IGN).  This tells the system to not leave
zombies around for child processes.

++Brandon
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