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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Marc Giger <gigerstyle@gmx.ch>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dead processes
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 13:12:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021008131238.E27856@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021008184024.27c95217.gigerstyle@gmx.ch>; from gigerstyle@gmx.ch on Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 06:40:24PM +0200

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
-- 
GMS rules.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-10-08 17:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-08 16:40 dead processes Marc Giger
2002-10-08 17:07 ` DervishD
2002-10-08 17:12 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2002-10-08 17:14 ` DervishD
2002-10-08 17:59 ` Marc Giger

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