Oliver Endriss wrote:

>Note that there is always a zombie fe process when vdr is running.
>Actually, a zombie process will be added each time the frontend is
>closed. This is a normal since zombie processes will not be removed
>until the parent process exits.

I thought it was removed when the parent process acknowledges the
process end via the wait() function.

This can be changed by using sigaction(). If SA_NOCLDWAIT is set, and
sig equals SIGCHLD, child processes of the calling processes will not be
transformed into zombie processes when they terminate.

/R�gis



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