On 18 Dec 2003 at 15:37, Spider wrote: > <defunct> state would mean that it doesn't let the program terminate > properly,
Nearly. IIRC a process is classed as a zombie when it *has* terminated but no other process has collected the return code. All resources used are freed up, except for a small entry in some kernel task list. Regards, Simon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
