Zombie process in libpurple.

[Sadrul Habib Chowdhury]

* Rehan had this to say on [23 Apr 2007, 07:32:30 -0700]:
> 
> Hi,
>   
>   I am developing an application powered by libpurple. But some strange
> thing is happening when i execute my application. Whenever a user logins
> into MSN 1-2 zombie process of my application is created which is not killed
> even after the user logouts. So per user logged in i have 2 zombies which
> eats up hell lot of process table space.

You need to listen to SIGCHLD and do waitpid to reap the terminated
children.

Sadrul