Deron Meranda wrote:
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 23:46:56 -0500, Scot L. Harris <webid@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
So if the parent process crashes all of the child processes will be
cleared?
When a parent process dies, all of it's children (whether currently
running or if they're zombies), are "inherited" by the main init
process, always process ID 1. And init will always immediately reap
any zombies. (Init is really a fake process which serves as the
process-face to the kernel itself.) So in effect, if the parent process
of a zombie dies, then the zombies will immediately be reaped and
disappear almost immediately.
So is this a bug in Firefox?
james 17993 17988 5 08:13 ? 00:01:19 /usr/lib/firefox-1.0/firefox-bin -UILocale en-US
james 18003 17993 0 08:14 ? 00:00:00 [netstat] <defunct>
If so, I will look for a bug entry at Bugzilla.
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James McKenzie
With assistance, Now running 2.6.11rc3, Software Suspend 2
and ibm-acpi .1
Need a home for my .rpm
