[VANILLA-L:861] Re: [VANILLA-L:860] robotII not dying

[James Cameron <cameron@stl.dec.com>]

Steve Franks wrote:
> After a player kills the robot, the slot is cleared, but the robotII
> process lingers.

I've seen this on my 2.7pl7 server for a while.  Eventually it will
consume all available process slots if a player is repeatedly calling
practice robots.

I don't recall a patch.  None of the patches for 2.8pl0 (which is the
one after 2.7pl7) mention this problem specifically.

It just needs a wait() doesn't it?  Something like a 

	pid = waitpid ( (pid_t) -1, &status, WNOHANG );

Ah, but where to put it?  And is waitpid() portable?

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James Cameron                                    (cameron@stl.dec.com)
Digital Equipment Corporation (Australia) Pty. Ltd. A.C.N. 000 446 800
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