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On Tue, 5 Jul 2011 14:52:49 -0700 (PDT), bitcycle
<sean.m.ochoa@gmail.com> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:

> In python, using twisted loopingcall, multiprocessing.Process, and multiprocessing.Queue; is it possible to create a zombie process. And, if so, then how?

	I'd suggest you read your OS documentation on just what a zombie
process is... Then extrapolate that to what multiprocessing and twisted
are doing behind the scenes.
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