On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 03:46:51PM -0500, Dale Rahn wrote:
> I first wrote this a while back but it got lost in my trees after I
> updated to a recent snapshot I noticed I was out of processes again,
> that I had > 50 zombie processes sitting around.
>
> I use usbhidaction to play/stop/skip music playing on my desktop
> controlling xmms.
>
> Without this patch, each time a key was pressed and xmms ran/exited it
> would leave another zombie process.
>
So, I recieved some feedback about this, here is what should be a much better
fix.
Index: usbhidaction.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/usbhidaction/usbhidaction.c,v
retrieving revision 1.15
diff -u -p -r1.15 usbhidaction.c
--- usbhidaction.c 7 Mar 2011 14:59:06 -0000 1.15
+++ usbhidaction.c 15 Oct 2011 21:08:34 -0000
@@ -160,6 +160,9 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
(void)signal(SIGHUP, sighup);
+ /* ignore the signal, allows init to reap any children that exit */
+ (void)signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN);
+
if (demon) {
if (daemon(0, 0) < 0)
err(1, "daemon()");
Dale Rahn dr...@dalerahn.com
