Re: [Monotone-devel] auto updates

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 01:59:49AM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> 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.

Well, there you go.  And I guess we could wrap all this up in a
boolean 'waitable' flag to spawn()?

-- Nathaniel

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