Multiprocessing zombie processes

Sat Jul 24 19:11:39 EDT 2010

OK I wanted zombie processes and have been able to regenerate them with multiprocessing. Now lets see how I can handle them. 
Nav
On 25-Jul-2010, at 4:37 AM, Navkirat Singh wrote:
> Hi,
>> I have been meddling around with forking and multiprocessing. Now both of them spawn new processes from parent (atleast from what I have understood). I have been able to reproduce a zombie state in a fork with:
>> import os,time
>> print('before fork',os.getpid())
>> pid = os.fork()
>> if pid:
> 	print('child: ',pid)
> 	time.sleep(120)
>> Now doing a ps ax | grep <pid> I can find a zombie child process, but I am not being able to reproduce the same with multiprocessing. Am I missing something? Or multiprocessing does not have the zombie problem?
>> Regards,
> Nav