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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:43:30 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Liviu Voicu <liviuv@savion.cc.huji.ac.il>
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Subject: Re: zombies
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Liviu Voicu <liviuv@savion.cc.huji.ac.il> wrote:
>
>  works on but I have zombie processes:
> 
>  liviu@starshooter liviu $ ps axf
>    PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
>      1 ?        S      0:04 init [3]
>      2 ?        SWN    0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
>      3 ?        SW<    0:00 [events/0]
>   3158 ?        Z<     0:00  \_ [events/0] <defunct>
>   3162 ?        Z<     0:00  \_ [events/0] <defunct>
>   3331 ?        Z<     0:00  \_ [events/0] <defunct>
>   3333 ?        Z<     0:00  \_ [events/0] <defunct>
>   3512 ?        Z<     0:00  \_ [events/0] <defunct>

ah, OK.  What happens if you do a `patch -R -p1' using
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test6/2.6.0-test6-mm1/broken-out/call_usermodehelper-retval-fix-2.patch ?