In message
<77a879cc-94ab-4e2a-a4af-a6945a5b8...@q16g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, Ray
wrote:
> I think I found it. need to call os.wait()
The rule on Unix/Linux systems is: “always remember to gobble your zombie
children”.
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On 30Jul2010 15:09, Ray wrote:
| On Jul 30, 6:03 pm, Ray wrote:
| > I'm running python 2.4 on linux. I use python os.fork run tcpdump, but
| > after I kill the forked process (tcpdump) in linux it shows defunct
[...]
| > after I call kill() it will kill tcpdump (capture will stop) but on
| > linu
On Jul 30, 6:03 pm, Ray wrote:
> I'm running python 2.4 on linux. I use python os.fork run tcpdump, but
> after I kill the forked process (tcpdump) in linux it shows defunct
>
> here is the code:
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import time, os
> class Test:
> def fork(self):
> self.pid=os.fork
