[gopher] pygopherd and zombies

[John Goerzen]

What I said was that it's always left 1 or 2 zombies. I can't really 
remember the reason now, but I believe it was in the guts of some Python 
module.

They always did get wait()ed upon, just after the next connection, I 
believe.  As a practical matter, that behavior doesn't cause any issues 
unless you're running on a system with 10K RAM...

John

On 03/25/2012 10:53 PM, David Griffith wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Mar 2012, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>