[Israel.pm] $SIG{CHLD}

[Eitan Schuler]

Pinkhas,
Thanks. The 'exec' has really solved the problem.

Thank you 
Eitan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pinkhas Nisanov [mailto:nisanov at netvision.net.il]
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 12:00 PM
> To: Perl in Israel
> Subject: Re: [Israel.pm] $SIG{CHLD}
> 
> 
> Eitan Schuler wrote:
> 
> >This works nice, the 'kill' kills the child perl process. 
> BUT the "csh -f "
> >becomes a zombie, because I killed it's parent (of course).
> >  
> >
> Process cannot become zombie if it's parent die, the "init" process
> run "wait" for processes without parent, I think "external_program"
> became zombie, not "csh". Try to use "exec" instead of 
> "system + csh", e.g.:
> if( $pid == 0 ) {
>     exec "external_program";
> }
> so "kill 9 => $pid" in parent will kill external_process directly.
> 
> regards
> Pinkhas Nisanov
> 
> 
> 
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