Hi, At Sat, 5 Apr 2003 03:13:24 +0900, Daniel Bretoi wrote: > I'm running a series of dependant events, much like a makefile. I make > each task a new thread, then I loop through the thread checking > dependencies, and if they've finished. I make a systemcall to actually > perform the task, and in order to make sure that things don't go zombie > on me, I do a collection of my threads in every cycle. See psedo code > below: Kernel#system always waits the child process, so no zombie should remain. Can't you show real code? -- Nobu Nakada