From: Dan Boger <zigdon@irc.peeron.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:19:48 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: Work around a bug in irssi on gentoo, leading to random zombies lurching about
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Work around a bug in irssi on gentoo, leading to random zombies lurching about
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diff --git a/twirssi.pl b/twirssi.pl
index fd2a48f..267db11 100644
--- 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