>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Stephen> I was hacking around on xfstt earlier today.
Neat. I packed up the ttf files from the Windows[1] that came with
my Laptop, and am going to try them with `xfstt' after I get Debian
2.0 installed on it. :-)
Stephen> This SEEMS to work fine (I havn't really given it a good
Stephen> test -YET) except when I connect and then
Stephen> disconnect...the child exists (via _exit(0)) after the
Stephen> client disconnects. The problem is that the child then
Stephen> become a zombie.
Stephen> I installed a signal handler for SIGCHLD which does
Stephen> nothing what should I do? how can I make th eparent clean
Stephen> up its little zombie children?
You can tell it to `IGN' SIGCHLD, and get automatic reaping, if I
remember right.
Read `man wait', `man sigaction', and any xrefs you find there. The
`info libc' is very good. You can use `M-x info-look' in emacs, with
the cursor on a symbol, and it will go and find the documentation on
the symbol in the info.
Buy, beg, borrow, or steal a copy of W. Richard Stevens' "Advanced
Programming in the Unix Environment". It covers signal handling, and
lots more.
Footnotes:
[1] I also snagged the `monitor*.inf' files; so I can get the scan
rate for my lcd panel laptop display. I wonder if it's legal to
run a perl processor on that and convert it to an XFree86
compatible monitor database, then distribute it?
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