Re: gtm keeps making 'sh <defunct>' processes
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 10:49, Ray wrote:
> i'm not sure if its just a setting i have wrong, but when i've finished
> downloading stuff there are a number of sh <defunct> show up in ps -A
>
> part of the output from 'ps -AH'
>
> PID TTY TIME CMD
> 21152 ? 00:00:00 gtm
> 21159 ? 00:00:00 sh <defunct>
[...]
> what setting did i foobar or is it a bug? i didn't find it in the bug list
> for gtm on debian or sourceforge.
you shouldn't have to worry about it. It just means that gtm hasn't
reaped its child processes. They will go away when gtm does. It could be
termed a bug, but it's not a harmful one.
-Mark
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