SYSTEM command

[Fairlight]

You'll never BELIEVE what Kenneth Brody said here...:
> > 
> > Yes, but you will then need to make sure you exit from
> > the loop, otherwise you will have a zombie on your
> > hands :-)
> 
> The loop will exit when the read fails, which will happen when filePro
> closes the pipe to it.

You'll possibly still end up with a zombie.  A client of mine once
-insisted- that having one rclerk continuously running to handle CGI
requests and then forking off other rclerk processes to handle the details
was a good model.  His process tables got filled with zombies from this
model.  AFAICT, fP doesn't wait on SIGCHLD, and you'll have a zombie until
the clerk or report process itself goes away and takes its children with
it for good.

mark->
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