On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 17:31, Ahmed Moustafa wrote:
> > #reap the children to avoid zombies
> > waitpid $_ for (@children); 
> 
> Do I need to pop the pid's from the stack children?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ahmed

You are better off trying 

$SIG{CHLD} = 'IGNORE';

at the top of your program and seeing if zombies are left out there.  If
so then you might want to use pop or shift like this

waitpid shift @children while @children;

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