[Freeswitch-users] Defunct process in ESL testserver example

[Anthony Minessale]

It's forking process code.
you need to ignore sigchld or create a sig handler for sigchld and use the
wait syscall to reap the process.


On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:22 AM, MohammedShehzad <pmhshz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I am creating a C program of ESL outbound for call processing.
> I am using testserver.c example, and till now it seems fine.
>
> But i noticed that every call testserver process, a new process is being
> created which I can see in Linux system with below command:
> For example, when I make two calls and even after hangup, I saw three
> process like below:
> ps -A | grep testserver
>  9345 pts/2    00:00:00 testserver
>  9350 pts/2    00:00:00 testserver
>  9357 pts/2    00:00:00 testserver
>
> This get increased for every call i make.
>
> I did some workout and placed below two lines (close & exit) at the end of
> mycallback function, (as I found them on ivrd.c file):
>
>     esl_disconnect(&handle);
>     close(client_sock);
>     exit(0);
> }
> But after that the process becomes defunct/zombie
>
>  9440 pts/2    00:00:00 conflisten
>  9442 pts/2    00:00:00 conflisten <defunct>
>  9452 pts/2    00:00:00 conflisten <defunct>
>
>
> Will anybody please suggest me how can I eliminate this process, which
> remains in memory even after call hangup?
>
> Thanks for any response.
> MohammedShehzad
>
>
>
>
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