Reap zombie processes left behind by openURL #1928
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This was attempted to be fixed in f7d226d but sadly broke os.execute (#1047), so it was later removed in a4a62f3.
This is a very similar fix, but we make sure to only waitpid for processes that we are supposed to reap.
Without this fix an example program like this would leave behind zombie processes:
With the fix, those zombie processes are gone.
I also made sure that this doesn't also break os.execute. This example program:
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I am not sure if my comment in the code is too verbose, but considering it took me a while to figure out what went on there in the past, I thought it would be better to write too much than too little. Let me know if anything needs changing.
Also I am not sure if that fix is even worth it. It's not very clean to leave them behind and they might be annoying, but the typical löve program does not open enough URLs for this to become a real problem.