Hi, Monks!

I need your help again. My question is why i have zombies process when i run my program?

Zombies looks like so:

 3614 pts/1    D      0:00 /usr/bin/perl /root/USS/uss.pl
 3616 pts/1    D      0:00 /usr/bin/perl /root/USS/uss.pl
 3617 pts/1    Z      0:00 uss.pl <defunct>
 3618 pts/1    Z      0:00 uss.pl <defunct>
 3619 pts/1    Z      0:00 uss.pl <defunct>
 3620 pts/1    Z      0:00 uss.pl <defunct>
 3621 pts/1    D      0:00 /usr/bin/perl /root/USS/uss.pl

Here is part of program:

foreach my $row (@$sections) {
    
    if (my $pid = fork) {
    push @pids, $pid;
    }
    else {
    open BIDS, ">>", $CONFIG{BIDS_FOLDER} . "{currentsite}_" . $row->[
+0] . ".svd" or die "Could't open bids file!";
    flock(BIDS, 2);
    
    print "$site_id, $row->[0], $row->[1]\n";
    $found += search_bids( $site_id, $row->[0], $row->[1] );

    flock(BIDS, 8);
    close BIDS;
    exit;
    }
}
for (my $i = 0; $i <= $#pids; $i++) {
    waitpid($pids[$i], 0);
}

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In search_bids sub i'm printing into BIDS and doing some LWP::UserAgent (getting pages and parse it) stuff.

In reply to fork and zombies by Gangabass

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