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From: mg@ (Mike Gigante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: <defunct> processes on a 4D/340
Message-ID: <mg.672314707@godzilla>
Date: 22 Apr 91 10:05:07 GMT
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It is easy to track down the reason for the defunct process IF you
use the -l option to ps. "ps -el" will include the parent process
of the zombies. It is that parent process which is the cause - it did
not "wait()" for a spawned child process.

Mike