On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:47:57 -0700, Alan M. Evans wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 19:24 +0100, Andy Green wrote: >> Like a ghost that cannot go on to >> the afterlife because it has a terrible secret it must tell someone, >> the zombies are hanging on grimly so they can whisper their process >> return code into their parents' ear before finally fading away. > > What an outstanding description! Clear and nearly literary in its > composition. Did you just make that up yourself? Truly, it should be in > a book somewhere, or somehow immortalized in a FAQ or HOWTO. > > What a gem. Really. Thanks to Andy Green and Alan Cox; I added the line to my pipe class destructor and my problem is solved. While this is not a problem, I note that the following: root@mbrc32 MdbUtil]# ps -ef | grep defunct | grep -v grep root 7808 1898 0 14:27 ? 00:00:00 [sh] <defunct> root 7811 1898 0 14:27 ? 00:00:00 [sh] <defunct> persists with the same pids through several executions of the command that should kill all zombies. I also second the appreciation noted by Alan M. Evans. Mike.
