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From: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: vi(1) bug - defunct processes
Message-ID: <9641@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Date: 22 Aug 89 14:04:00 GMT
References: <14562@bfmny0.UUCP>
Reply-To: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff)
Organization: Branch Technology Ann Arbor, MI
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>The symptom:  Every time you pass a piece of an open file through a
>filter (e.g., 'spell', 'filter' etc) using the ! <cursor-move> operator,
>'vi' leaves the process it used hanging <defunct> in the system,


I see this same problem here ( Sys V.3.1 on a '386).



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