On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Steven W. Orr wrote: > I'm running 1.2.1 and on an occasional basis I end up with a gzip process > that does not get reaped. It's not a zombie process, it's just hanging > waiting for it's parent to reap it.
Your statement doesn't make sense. A zombie is a process which has exited. The process's remains are kept by the kernel waiting for the parent to reap. Running processes (which have not exited) do not wait for their parents to reap them. A process is either still running, or it is a process which is a zombie and has not been reaped. There's no such thing as a dead process which has not been reaped which is not a zombie > Here's what ps shows: > > root 23277 0.0 0.0 1784 592 ? S 03:31 0:03 gzip -9 Whatever is feeding the standard input of that process has not terminated. What does "ps fax" tell you? > Do we need to modify flexbackup to set SIG_IGN for SIGCHLD? I don't know why you are suggesting that. > Anybody home? Lights are on. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ flexbackup-help mailing list flexbackup-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flexbackup-help
