[Evolution-hackers] Question about defunc processes produced by libsoup on Solaris

[Sean Gao <sean gao sun com>]

Hi Hackers,
   We met a problem when using libsoup.
    In the funciton soup-ssl.c : soup_get_ssl_iochannel_real, it uses 
fork()  and exec() to create a child
progress to complete the secure connection establishment by execute 
soup_ssl_proxy. This works well
on Linux, however, on Solaris we find that it will produce a lot of 
defunct  processes there  before the
parent process ends. 
    And we have noticed that there is a waitpid () call if 
G_IO_HUP|G_IO_ERR|G_IO_NVAL matches.
However,  if there is no such error signal returns, why the parent do 
not call waitpid () to waiting the child
process?  AFAIK,  it would make child pocesses become zombie if the 
parent neither end before the child
nor wait for it.
    Any idea? 

Thanks,

-Sean