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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