OK I wanted zombie processes and have been able to regenerate them with
multiprocessing. Now lets see how I can handle them.
Nav
On 25-Jul-2010, at 4:37 AM, Navkirat Singh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been meddling around with forking and multiprocessing. Now both of
> them spawn new processes from parent (atleast from what I have understood). I
> have been able to reproduce a zombie state in a fork with:
>
> import os,time
>
> print('before fork',os.getpid())
>
> pid = os.fork()
>
> if pid:
> print('child: ',pid)
> time.sleep(120)
>
> Now doing a ps ax | grep <pid> I can find a zombie child process, but I am
> not being able to reproduce the same with multiprocessing. Am I missing
> something? Or multiprocessing does not have the zombie problem?
>
> Regards,
> Nav
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