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in reply to Re: Re: Daemon causing zombies under 5.8
in thread Daemon causing zombies under 5.8

You're welcome. I suggest you think about removing the recursion that Helter pointed out, too. I never noticed it when I skimmed your program the first time, because I was only looking for the cause of your zombie problem. Wouldn't it be much cleaner to structure your code like 
   while (1) {
      process_files();  # loop(), essentially
      sleep $interval;
   }

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