Re: [gopher] pygopherd and zombies
> > > Does anyone here know why pygopherd constantly creates zombies? Does
> > > anyone know how to fix it?
> >
> > What OS? Sounds like it's not wait()ing on its children. Maybe try
> > running it from (x)inetd?
>
> I'm running it on x86 and amd64. I just got a reply from John Goerzen who
> said that it has always done that. It just strikes me as something that
> really should be fixed instead of tolerating it.
Seems like it should be possible to hack into it and make a dummy SIGCHLD
handler that just wait()s.
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