How to get rid of zombie processes?

[Cheng]

I spawning new processes in rails controller, I don't want to block the controller, so I don't wait() them. But this create zombie processes.

Is this a problem? How to get rid of zombie processes?

[Michael Noack]

Closing as this issue is stale. I'm happily accept pull requests to fix if this problem has been solved since your message (e.g. fixed in a fork)

Thank You