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From: paddock@mybest.UUCP (pri=-10 Steve Paddock)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: vi(1) bug - defunct processes
Message-ID: <10861@mybest.UUCP>
Date: 24 Aug 89 19:07:41 GMT
References: <14562@bfmny0.UUCP> <9641@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Reply-To: paddock@mybest.UUCP (pri=-10 Steve Paddock)
Organization: Stephen Paddock, Houston, Texas
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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,

Also present in 3B2/600 R3.1.1
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