Re: How to avoid zombie processes?

On Sep 12, 6:33 pm, Lambda <stephenh...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The APUE section 8.6 mentions a method to avoid zombie processes.
The trick is to call fork twice:
[snip]
But I cannot understand why this code could avoid zombie.
Can you explain it?

Since your child dies immediately after creation, and you reap it,
there is no child *of* *yours* left around to become a zombie.

DS


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