On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Rambo <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone know how to deal with this kind of thing? > I have process A that forks 3 processes, but when an exception occurs in > process A and it's not caught, it never dies and stays like a zombie waiting > for something... > Somehow the forked processes are preventing the parent process from exiting. > > After trying different approaches, I found this "hack" and seems to work: > > process.on('uncaughtException', function(e) { > logger.logError(e); > console.trace(); > process.exit(1); > }); > process.on('exit', function() { > // kill each forked process using .kill() > }); > > Is there a cleaner way to do this? what about SIGTERM, SIGKILL, etc events?
How are you spawning the child processes and what does `ps -A -o state,comm | grep '[n]ode'` print? If the parent process is in Z(ombie) mode, it means that *its* parent process failed to reap it. -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
