Re: dead processes

From: Benjamin LaHaise (bcrl@redhat.com)
Date: Tue Oct 08 2002 - 12:12:38 EST

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Hello,

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 06:40:24PM +0200, Marc Giger wrote:
> There are a lot of defunct processes which I can't kill.
> How comes? Normal? Solution?

Whatever program is spawning gpg needs to reap the processes as they die
via wait4(), possibly by catching SIGCHLD. You can see the relationship
between processes with ps -axf.

-ben

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