Re: Ending up with Zombie process

[zentara <zentara zentara net>]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:08:12 +0100
"Eisenknapp, Josef" <josef eisenknapp siemens com> wrote:

> Hello again
> The more complex my program is, the more questions i have :-)
I know what you mean. :-)

>    sub watch_callback{
>
>    print "callback called\n";
>    my ($fh) = @_;
>
>    my $line;
>    $fh->sysread($line,1000);
>    chomp $line;
>    if($line){
>          print $line. "\n";
>    }
>    else{
            
            1 while wait != -1 ;  # avoid zombies

>          print "remove helper\n";
>          Gtk2::Helper->remove_watch($helper_tag);
>    }
>
>    return TRUE;
>    }

> This works pretty fine, but when the process "write_to_fff.pl"
> terminates it becomes a ZOMBI.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to avoid this?

Add  
    1 while wait != -1 ;  # avoid zombies
at the point indicated above.


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