[Freeswitch-users] recvEvent causes zombies process

[Anthony Minessale]

you are calling fork every time you receive an event.
you need to exit the process from the child and reap or ignore it on the
parent.


On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Ejay Greeves <ejay.greeves at yahoo.com>wrote:

> I am wanting to code an inbound event program.
>
> In order to see why I am getting zombie processes I stripped out all my
> code and used the minimum skeletcon code to do a test.
>
> con = ESL::ESLconnection.new('127.0.0.1', '8021', 'ClueCon')
> con.events("plain", "CHANNEL_HANGUP_COMPLETE")
>
> loop do
> event = con.recvEvent
>  pid = fork do
>
> end
>
> Process.detach(pid)
> end
>
>
> This code does nothing but wait for an incoming event, creates an fork then
> detach however it still produces a defunct process.
>
> I think con.recvEvent is the cause?
>
>
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