Hi Again,

That works great!
But there is one small problem.

A quick run down of what i'm doing.
I've created a simple webserver (mainly because Apache can't execute root commands, but thats another story).
So, i have this: 
#START MY LISTENING DAEMON WITH HTTP::DAEMON

# Fork to begin with so that it can run from 
# shell in the background
my $mainpid = fork;
  if(!$mainpid)
  {
     while ($new_sock = $sock->accept()) {
     # Theres a connection, fork it so that that user 
     # has there own dedicated process
     
      my $pid = fork; 
       if(!$pid)
         { 
       while (my $request_obj = $new_sock->get_request()) {
        #This is a new HTTP header, and is basically a 
        #request for a page
        #Fork again

           my $pid2 = fork;
           if(!$pid2) {

             #RETURN THE PAGE 

                      exit; #This kill $pid 
                      }

        	} #End reading the object
	exit; #Kill the child
       }#End Fork2	

     } #End Accept Request
    } # End the main fork

This code works fine. The problem is, it leaves behind lots of these:
root 5066 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/1 Z 21:33 0:00 perl <defunct>
What's causing it?

In reply to Re^2: Forking by andy7t
in thread Forking by andy7t

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