Work around a bug in irssi on gentoo, leading to random zombies lurching about

diff --git a/twirssi.pl b/twirssi.pl
index fd2a48fffe0bcbd651c954942c0841b2a1213fa7..267db1114d01e79c6f437a22e70544f9eb1d7552 100644 (file)
--- a/twirssi.pl
+++ b/twirssi.pl
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ use File::Temp;
 use LWP::Simple;
 use Data::Dumper;
 use Encode;
+use POSIX qw/:sys_wait_h/;
 $Data::Dumper::Indent = 1;
 
 use vars qw($VERSION %IRSSI);
@@ -1185,6 +1186,9 @@ sub monitor_child {
       if &debug;
     my ($new_last_poll);
 
+    # reap any random leftover processes - work around a bug in irssi on gentoo
+    waitpid(-1, WNOHANG);
+
     # first time we run we don't want to print out *everything*, so we just
     # pretend