Hallo monks!
I have a client/server envirnment working with Perl 5.005_03 and RPC::PlClient/RPC::PlServer. The environment works on many different platforms, including Nokia IPSO (which is their own FreeBSD version).
Unfortunately, whenever a connection is closed, a new zombie process is created on the IPSO machine (the server side), until the proc table is full.
Looking into it I found the following line in Net::Daemon: 
    return 'IGNORE' if $^O eq 'linux'; # We get zombies on Linux other
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Reading further about this in perldoc I was glad and I just added "freebsd" to the regexp, but unfortunately nothing changed.
Since I don't really need the server to me able to listen to more then one connection at a time I moved to use 'single' mode instead of 'fork' mode, like I do on windows, but it is an ugly solution.

Any idea ?

The Perl -V data on the IPSO is:
Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=freebsd, osvers=2.2.8-release, archname=i386-freebsd
    uname='freebsd athens.checkpoint.com 2.2.8-release freebsd 2.2.8-r
+elease #0: mon nov 30 06:34:08 gmt 1998 jkh@time.cdrom.com:usrsrcsysc
+ompilegeneric i386 '
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', optimize=' ', gccversion=2.8.1
    cppflags=''
    ccflags =''
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=undef, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=1
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    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='ld', ldflags =''
    libpth=/usr/lib
    libs=-lm -lc -lcrypt
    libc=, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_none.xs, dlext=none, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=''
    cccdlflags='-DPIC -fpic', lddlflags=''


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Built under freebsd
  Compiled at Jul 11 2001 20:45:05
  @INC:
    /opt/perl5/lib/5.00503/i386-freebsd
    /opt/perl5/lib/5.00503
    /opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd
    /opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.005
    .

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TIA,
shushu

In reply to Net::Daemon and zombies by shushu

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