Re: Re: Daemon causing zombies under 5.8

[trs80]

Thanks for the second set of eyes virtualsue. I had been over the $SIG{CHLD} = 'IGNORE' problem before when working on a different solution, I can't belive I didn't notice it was missing from this code.

[virtualsue]

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;
   }

?