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From: Sjon Hortensius <Sjon@hortensius.net>
Subject: Fwd: bug? Spawned childs always remain in zombie state
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:04:04 +0100
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Hi. I'm trying to create a script which monitors a directory using
inotify and spawns a background process for all events. However I
found that all childs will remain in zombie state until the script
quits and I am unable to find a proper fix.

A minimal testcase:

#!/bin/dash
while true
do
    sleep 1 &
#    jobs >/dev/null
done

If you open a second terminal you'll see that all the 'sleep'
processes end up being defunct. I have tried playing with `set -ma`
but the only workaround I found is the commented 'jobs' line.
Uncommenting that line will result in expected behavior where childs
are properly reaped. Is this a bug, or is there an alternative
solution I'm missing?

Thanks,
Sjon