[packagekit] Python fork() question

[Richard Hughes]

On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 22:15 -0500, Robin Norwood wrote:
> I'm not really sure why it takes so long (1 s?) for the child process
> to exit...it exits right after calling Finished() - the yum is already
> unlocked and everything.

I see in ps aux:

root      4804  0.0  0.0      0     0 pts/1    Z+   22:13   0:00 [PackageKitDbusT] <defunct>

Are we sure we're doing the fork and exit properly? I don't really
understand all this unis fork() lark!

Richard