mtv leaves a zombie after exit

Terry Lambert tlambert2 at mindspring.com
Mon May 12 07:47:55 PDT 2003


Doug Barton wrote:
> For some time now on -current whenever I run mtv, it leaves a zombie after
> it exits:
> 
> USER     PID  PPID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS STAT STARTED      TIME COMMAND
> doug       0     1  0.0  0.0     0    0 ZW   -         0:00.00  (mtvp)
> 
> It runs fine, displays the video fine, but it always leaves a zombie.

Zombies exist when the parent process fails to reap child
exit status.  This may be a bug in your shell.  If it's not
a bug in your shell, then it's a bug in kernel (probably in
fork_exit).

-- Terry


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