Re: Just for fun: creating zombies with Python

2016-06-02 Thread Lawrence D’Oliveiro
On Thursday, June 2, 2016 at 8:57:13 PM UTC+12, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > os.waitpid(pids[i], 0) One of the first lessons you learn, when messing about with spawning processes on Linux(-compatible) systems in languages other than a shell, is ALWAYS GOBBLE YOUR ZOMBIE CHILDREN! -- https:/

Just for fun: creating zombies with Python

2016-06-02 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Just for fun, I thought I'd create some zombie processes using Linux. (This will probably only work on POSIX-compliant operating systems. I don't know that Windows has zombies.) I started with the C code given here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_process#Examples and re-wrote it into Pyt