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From: Darren Sessions <dsessions@ionosphere.net>
Subject: Defunct Processes
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 21:13:56 -0500
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The application I'm working on right now gets called from another
application. When my program is finished, I just use exit(0); to quit, but
if I do a ps there are a ton of [applicationname] <defunct> messages.

I'm using Suse Enterprise Linux 9.0 with the 2.6 Kernel.

Thanks,

 - Darren