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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 13:12:38 -0400
From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Marc Giger <gigerstyle@gmx.ch>
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Subject: Re: dead processes
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Hello,

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 06:40:24PM +0200, Marc Giger wrote:
> There are a lot of defunct processes which I can't kill.
> How comes? Normal? Solution?

Whatever program is spawning gpg needs to reap the processes as they die 
via wait4(), possibly by catching SIGCHLD.  You can see the relationship 
between processes with ps -axf.

		-ben
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