On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Antti Kantee wrote:

> Actually, if you kill a process's parent, it should be inherited by
> init, which will wait() for the process once it dies and make the zombie
> ``go away''.
> 
> You have some buggy programs which don't wait() for their children. Fix
> them, or as a quick solution, kill the parent.

What if you don't want to wait() for it? For example, I have a little X
app that when I click in it, it forks a new process and then execve()'s a
browser (using the URL from the X copy buffer). (It creates a lot of
zombies!) I want to wait() for it, but I don't want my parent application
to stall until the child closes -- any code examples?

On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Douglas Egan wrote:
> > Not sure where they are coming from - possibly ssh or netscape.

What are they called (command name and arguments)?

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