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Re: Best way to prevent zombie processes

From Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>
Subject Re: Best way to prevent zombie processes
Date 2015-06-01 13:37 +1000
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Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> writes:

> The standard trick is to make the process a grandchild instead of a
> child.  Fork, kick off subprocess, exit (the forked child).

For Cecil Westerhof's benefit: If you haven't seen it, the
‘python-daemon’ library is designed to get this, and other fiddly
aspects of daemonising the current program, correct in Python code.

    <URL:https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-daemon/>

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Best way to prevent zombie processes Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-31 23:33 +0200
  Re: Best way to prevent zombie processes Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-06-01 01:22 +0300
    Re: Best way to prevent zombie processes Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-01 11:20 +0200
      Re: Best way to prevent zombie processes Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-06-01 20:04 +1000
        Re: Best way to prevent zombie processes Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-06-01 13:21 +0300
      Re: Best way to prevent zombie processes Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-06-01 13:25 +0300
    Re: Best way to prevent zombie processes Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-06-01 14:59 +0000
      Re: Best way to prevent zombie processes Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-06-01 18:39 +0300
  Re: Best way to prevent zombie processes Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2015-06-01 11:03 +1000
    Re: Best way to prevent zombie processes Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-01 11:23 +0200
  Re: Best way to prevent zombie processes Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-06-01 13:37 +1000
  Re: Best way to prevent zombie processes Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-01 14:16 +0200
    Re: Best way to prevent zombie processes Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-06-01 16:32 +0300
      Re: Best way to prevent zombie processes Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-01 16:37 +0200
    Re: Best way to prevent zombie processes Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-01 15:03 +0200

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