[Adium-devl] rev 19069 - in branches/adium-1.0/Plugins/Gaim Service: . Libgaim.framework/Versions/A/Headers

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Feb 25, 2007, at 9:35 AM, Graham Booker wrote:

> 3) The parent calls wait when the child exist.
>
> I suggest we do number 3 here.  Unlike the DNS lookups, we know  
> exactly when the child exist.  The DNS lookups re-use the children  
> to do more lookups later, so the exact time of the child's death is  
> not known, but here, one lookup is done, and then child sends its  
> data, cleans up its memory, then exits.  The parent then proceeds  
> to read all its data.  If the parent simply calls wait at this  
> point, it will catch the child's death.  It would need to store the  
> pid in the _GaimSrvQueryData struct or something, so it can call  
> waitpid and make sure it gets the correct one.  I could code this  
> up pretty quickly this afternoon if you like.

That sounds like a good solution to me, Graham.  If you'll send me a  
patch, I'll take a look and commit it upstream. We can then remove  
our zombie killer entirely - woot. :)

-Evan
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