[Motion-user] Events leave zombies on OpenBSD

[Mark <mo...@it...>]

Hi,

Since a couple of days I'm trying to run motion (3.2.11.1) on OpenBSD 4.6. 

Compiling worked without much problems. I only needed to add:
#elif __OpenBSD__
#include <dev/ic/bt8xx.h>
like the NetBSD part in video_freebsd.c

Now I can run motion without problems until I add scripts to events. As soon 
as an event is triggered it leaves a zombie "sh" in the system. Even in the 
most simple (and useless) case of

on_picture_save /bin/sleep 2

leaves the zombies on every picture save resulting in many zombies in 
minutes.

I have checked the source and the signal handler (sigchild_handler) doesn't 
seem to be called ever. I just can not find any error in the code and it's 
driving me nuts. All looks fine to me.

The reason I like to use OpenBSD 4.6 is that I can use flashboot to make it 
run in RAM on an Alix (pcengine) system. I already have this part working 
and aside from the zombies motion works just great. The zombies b.t.w. do 
also occeur on a "stock" 4.6 install. Not just on the flashboot compiled.

Is anyone running motion on OpenBSD and has figured out how to avoid 
zombies?

Mark