Re: Preventing zombies to occure

[Ben Smithurst]

> 'Alfred Perlstein' wrote:
> 
>> int
>> sigchld_handler(int) 
>> {
>> 
>>      while (waitpid(-1, NULL, 0) || errno == EINTR)
>>              ;
>> }

actually, shouldn't you use WNOHANG when calling waitpid() there?  What
I normally do is

        int e = errno;

        while (waitpid(-1, NULL, WNOHANG) > 0)
                ;

        errno = e;

But I think I'm drifting from the original point.

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