How to keep your child from becoming a zombie process (C example)?

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How to keep your child from becoming a zombie process (C example)? // If you don't reap them, child processes become zombies by default. But what if you don't want them to? This videos shows you how to create child processes that you never have to wait for (reap) using sigaction.
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[@rorak6142]

title with the last word: 😀 title without the last word: 💀

[@rorak6142]

@@AbhishekBM How to keep your child from becoming a zombie......process

[@wopmf4345FxFDxdGaa20]

I thought this was about parenting. 😂

[@anon_y_mousse]

A good parent doesn't let their child become a zombie?

[@Tom-gz2dn]

Thought it was about keeping your kids from phone and social media addiction lol

[@knight_kazul]

@@Tom-gz2dn Kinda similar?

[@JakobKenda]

Your should've gone all in with the thumbnail - "Stop Your Children From Becoming Zombies"

[@instrate4307]

Imaging a mommy who randomly clicks on this video and becomes a C programmer

[@embeddor3023]

Maybe it's worth to mention that this only works in unix and more a unix thing than a "C" thing...

[@marc-andrebrun8942]

linux is a C thing!

[@JaccovanSchaik]

Interesting, didn't know about that. On an unrelated note, I think your memset is wrong. You pass in sizeof(sigaction) as the size, I think that gets you the size of a pointer to the sigaction function. You probably want either sizeof(struct sigaction) or sizeof(sa).

[@TheGryphon14]

which font are you using?

[@matiasm.3124]

Moreeeeee

[@fickthissut]

NIce title lol

[@energy-tunes]

you gotta hop on the shorts game jacob

[@knight_kazul]

For a second i thought you were gonna talk about actual children 😂.

[@capsey_]

Jacob, I think you forgot to change the text on your thumbnail, there should be "Parenting", not "C/OS"

[@leokiller123able]

instead of using memset to set the struct to zero you can just do struct sigaction sa = {};

[@anon_y_mousse]

@Haris Salam My favorite new feature is definitely #embed. I know a lot of people don't get it, but it will be a game changer for some projects.

[@josh1234567892]

brainsssssss

[@31redorange08]

After having viewed a bunch of these videos: Do people actually write C code voluntarily?

[@31redorange08]

@Haris Salam Don't you see any problem with the code that's apparently best practice?

[@31redorange08]

@Haris Salam I don't know shit about C, so I don't know if this is the canonical way to do it. If it is, then the language has some serious design flaws.

[@dorle3046]

@31redorange08 I'm also curious what you are referring to? what are the design issues that concern you? This particular video is actually more about parent-child interactions in unix, not really C specific even

[@chair547]

I don't think you understand why C is the way that it is. The amount of complexity that everything in C has attached to it is a direct result of the fact that computers are just rocks we tricked into thinking. Higher-level languages take all this complexity and hide it away from us, and most of the time that's good but sometimes you need to interface with the underlying complexity

[@Mauricetz]

Other languages don't write themselves :p