in reply to forking in a cgi script

i think this should get rid of your zombies for you 
use POSIX ":sys_wait_h";

sub zombie_reaper {
    while ( waitpid( -1, WNOHANG ) > 0 )
    { }
    $SIG{CHLD} = \&zombie_reaper;
}
$SIG{CHLD} = \&zombie_reaper;

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Re: Re: forking in a cgi script
by Marcello (Hermit) on Mar 26, 2004 at 10:12 UTC
    Or even: 
    # Automatically reap zombies
$SIG{CHLD} = 'IGNORE';

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