On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:34:55 +0100, Steve Searle wrote: > Around 08:08pm on Monday, August 20, 2007 (UK time), Mike -- EMAIL > IGNORED scrawled: > >> Thanks to Andy Green and Alan Cox; I added the line to my pipe class >> destructor and my problem is solved. While this is not a problem, I >> note that the following: >> >> root@mbrc32 MdbUtil]# ps -ef | grep defunct | grep -v grep root >> 7808 1898 0 14:27 ? 00:00:00 [sh] <defunct> root 7811 >> 1898 0 14:27 ? 00:00:00 [sh] <defunct> >> >> persists with the same pids through several executions of the command >> that should kill all zombies. > > What command? I understood that you couldn't kill zombies (without > rebooting) - that's why they are so named. But I'm no expert. > > Steve > [...] waitpid(-1, &n, WNOHANG); Look back on other posts on this thread. Mike. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
