[Zope] Persistant Zombies and a sanity check

[Dieter Maurer]

Dennis Allison wrote at 2003-10-2 00:31 -0700:
 > I use htmldoc to generate pdf documents connecting to Zope via a simple
 > popen2() call in an external procedure which pipes input to htmldoc and
 > grabs output from htmldoc.  The htmldoc process remains in the process
 > table as a zombie and remains there until Zope is restarted.
 > 
 > To avoid persistant zombies, I'll need to not use the factory function, 
 > popen2, and do a bit closer management of the process--that is, the parent
 > will need to iexecute a wait on the child (htmldoc) so that when it
 > completes the child process can die.

Do you call "close" on your file objects?


Dieter