[gopher] pygopherd and zombies

[Cameron Kaiser]

> > > 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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