Thread: Fork => zombie => error

Code:

pid = fork();
		if (pid < 0){ error("Error: Cannot create new proces"); return EXIT_FAILURE;}
		if (pid == 0)  {
			i++;
			close(sockfd);
			dostuff(newsockfd,i+pid);
			close(newsockfd);
			return EXIT_SUCCESS;
		}

Now the problem is that if this process runs for a week or so it has forked so many times that the ps aux list is full of zombies.

I used to know how to deal with zombies but i seem to have forgotten it. Please help me. The parent doen't need any information of the child when te child ends? So how do I prevent that the child turn into a zombie after the child dies.

You might not need any information, but you still have to call one of the wait() functions to cause the zombie to finally disappear from the process table.