Zombies

[Gorur R. Ravi]

In article <2647 at stl.stc.co.uk> dsr at stl.stc.co.uk (David Riches) writes:
>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?

Try this. It might work!

	signal(SIGCLD, SIGIGN);

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