Fix zombie process leak from grpcui processes#30
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grpcui processes were started with cmd.Start() but cmd.Wait() was never called, causing every exited grpcui process to remain as a zombie in the OS process table. Over time this accumulated hundreds of zombies and could exhaust the system process limit. Add a goroutine to call cmd.Wait() after each grpcui process starts, which reaps the process immediately when it exits for any reason. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
cmd.Start()butcmd.Wait()was never called, causing every exited grpcui process to remain as a zombie (Z/<defunct>) in the OS process tablecmd.Wait()after each grpcui start, which reaps the process immediately when it exitsTest plan
go buildsucceedsgo test ./...passeskportforward --grpcuiand verify zero zombie accumulation withps -A -o stat,ppid,pid,command | grep '^Z'🤖 Generated with Claude Code