I used os.waitpid,but I still can't Zombie process?

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"ÕÅÉÙ³Û" <zhangsc at neusoft.com> wrote in message
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I still want to kill Zombie process which cause by child process,so I use
os.waitpid,But I found Zombie is still exist,why? my program is follows:
...
while 1:
  ...
  ret=os.fork()
  if ret==0:
     HOST=udpaddr
     PORT=21567
     ADDR=(HOST,PORT)
     udpSerSock=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
     udpSerSock.sendto(data,ADDR)
     udpSerSock.close()
     break
  os.waitpid(ret,os.WNOHANG);

Where is my program's error? How to correct my program? Any idea will be
appreciated.
      Edward

Depends on what your trying to do.

If your intent is to spawn a child to do the work, and wait till its
completed, then replace os.WNOHANG with 0 in the os.waitpid call. Naturally
the question would become why spawn a process your going to wait for when
you could do the work inline and save the overhead of a fork call.

If as the code imply's your looking to continually spawn processes and
cleanup the zombies as they happen, then replace RET with -1 in the
os.waitpid call. I'd also advise looping on the return tuple to ensure you
remove as many dead processes as possible per loop.

However you can save a lot of overhead from the loop, by creating a handler
for SIGCHLD and calling waitpid(-1, os.WNOHANG) from within the handler. See
Pythons signal module for more details of that option.

Anthony McDonald