Re: [Monotone-devel] auto updates

[Zack Weinberg]

On 10/29/06, Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> It should be possible to deal with zombies through some POSIX hackery,
> no?  The only tricky bit is that we _do_ sometimes want to wait for a
> process, so we can't just unconditionally get rid of zombies...

Fork a child, which forks a grandchild and exits.  Grandchild execs
what you really wanted to run.  wait() returns for the child, and the
grandchild gets reparented to init.

zw