> They *do* terminate; a zombie is a dead process waiting for its parent to
> reap it with waitForProcess.  There's also some POSIX stuff you can do to
> have them auto-reaped, but doing that correctly and portably is somewhat
> painful.

You can use a double fork to make this portable and not painful.  It's
just that you have to fork twice, which can be expensive in some
cases.