Re: Immortal processes (SOLVED)

[Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com>]

Jan C. Nordholz wrote:
> a zombie process is a different thing. Zombie processes don't exist anymore,
> and their memory has already been freed. The only thing left is the return
> code, which the parent process can retrieve via C's wait(), waitpid() and
> friends. As long as the father process doesn't recollect its dead children
> (or terminates itself), those zombies will remain and, because they're no
> real processes anymore, not respond to signals.
>
> So summing up, this sounds like a bug in TkRemind... where exactly is
> TkRemind? Could you name me the package? (I'd go look myself, but packages.d.o
> is currently down...)

Actually, I have solved my problem.  The bug was in TkRemind, but it 
turns out it was in a mod that I had made, myself.  I made some changes 
to allow displaying the Hebrew date, along with the Gregorian date in 
each cell.  To do this, I opened a pipe to remind, just as TkRemind was 
doing to get its information.  Unfortunately, I forgot to CLOSE the 
pipe.  One extra line of code and the zombies are all gone, now.

BTW, TkRemind is a frontend to remind in the package remind.

Slapping myself on the head for making this mistake in the first place.

Marc Shapiro