Defunct processes after fork/_exit

[robert_gasch peoplesoft com]

Hi,

I've written some code that forks and does some useful
work in the child process. While the child process is executing,
everything is fine, but once it terminates and calls _exit(0) the
process listing shows it as being defunct:

/home/rgasch/src/terraform/src> ps aux | grep terra
rgasch    1273  3.1  3.8  7904 4976 pts/0    S    16:13   0:03 ./terraform -f wo
rgasch    1274  1.5  0.0     0    0 pts/0    Z    16:13   0:01 [terraform <defun
rgasch    1295  0.0  0.3  1152  404 pts/2    S    16:15   0:00 grep terra


Any idea what I might be doing wrong to cause this?

Thanks
--> Robert