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From: DervishD <raul@pleyades.net>
To: Marc Giger <gigerstyle@gmx.ch>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dead processes
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 19:14:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021008171443.GL45@DervishD> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021008184024.27c95217.gigerstyle@gmx.ch>

    Hi Marc :))

    I almost forgot... A process become a zombie if it dies before
its parent, so the parent can retrieve child process status using
'wait()'. If the parent dies before doing this *then* the process
will be inherited by 'init' and ripped at some time.

    Seems like your gpg has died leaving a lot of children and 'init'
hasn't done its harvest yet ;))) Give it some time.

    Raúl

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-10-08 17:10 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
2002-10-08 17:14 ` DervishD [this message]
2002-10-08 17:59 ` Marc Giger

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