* Yevmenkin, Maksim N, CSCIO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000825 05:59] wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > If a parent that has zombie children exits the kernel will attach them
> > to init (I haven't checked, but this is the common unix solution).
> > init will be calling waitpid to clear zombies automagically.
> >
> > So this sorta already happens. :)
>
> two ways:
>
> first:
>
> something like
>
> SIGCHLD_handler(int)
> {
> while (waitpid(-1, NULL, 0))
> ;
> }
This could be wrong if:
[EINTR] The call was interrupted by a caught signal, or the
signal did not have the SA_RESTART flag set.
more proper (paraniod) would be:
int
sigchld_handler(int)
{
while (waitpid(-1, NULL, 0) || errno == EINTR)
;
}
> you need to handle SIGCHLD, otherwise you will have zombies.
>
> second:
>
> use SA_NOCLDWAID flag in sigaction(2)
> in this case ``init'' will be responsible for zombie process
typo: should be 'SA_NOCLDWAIT'.
Sorry to pick, but one must be careful.
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