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Re: fvwm leaving defunct processes?



Paul Smith wrote:
> 
> Has anyone else noticed fvwm leaving defunct processes?  Ever single
> application I start from fvwm, either modules or with Exec, is left as
> <defunct> after it exits.  It doesn't seem to matter whether I use "Exec
> foo" or "Exec exec foo".  The parent of the defunct processes is,
> correctly, fvwm itself.
> 
> I have been using fvwm for years and years and I haven't changed
> anything about my configuration in quite a while; I don't know exactly
> how long this has been going on.
> 
> I'm using Debian 3.0, with a tiny bit of testing thrown in, and so had
> been using fvwm 2.4.8 but I upgraded to unstable fvwm 2.4.10-2 just
> recently and restarted, and I still see the same problem...
> 
> Is this a libc thing?  Or a fvwm thing (seems like someone else would
> have noticed it by now!)?
> 
> Ideas on how to fix this?  It's most annoying!

Maybe you should review the manual at http://www.fvwm.org, because
there's a *lot* of config file changes compared to earlier versions.



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