I use fluxbox (0.9.9-1) and start most processes with a key combination through fluxkeys. This works fine, but I am noticing a peculiarity: processes started that way end up being defunct/zombie processes for a while: madduck 19643 0.7 0.0 0 0 ? ZNs 11:54 0:18 [firefox-bin] <de madduck 20776 4.5 0.0 0 0 ? ZNs 12:30 0:19 [firefox-bin] <de A little googline brought up this gem: http://lists.ethernal.org/dunlug-0310/msg00074.html where the author claims: "It's normal to see a small number of zombie processes at any one time one a machine (currently, my machine has 5, although that's higher that normal)" This is news to me and on no other of my machines do I get to witness the phenomenon. Thus, I wonder if it's a bug in fluxbox or whether this is expected behaviour. Maybe someone can provide some insights. Thanks, -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver!
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