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Re: fork and zombies

by Zaxo (Archbishop)
on Oct 24, 2007 at 07:11 UTC ( [id://646840]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to fork and zombies

waitpid looks for a particular child, and other signals may be lost. I like to keep the pid's as keys in a hash and delete them as they die:

delete $pid{+wait} while %pid;
Trying to do that in a for loop assumes that child processes will halt in a particular order.

After Compline,
Zaxo

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