Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 20:34:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Carl Mascott <cmascott@world.std.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FBSD 3.3-R: progs started from olvwm menu leave zombies Message-ID: <200004140034.UAA22091@world.std.com>
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I'm having a problem with FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE that I didn't have with 2.2.7-RELEASE. When I exit a program that I started from my olvwm 4.2 Programs menu, if the program created a child process, that child process becomes a zombie. I have three programs that do this: Netscape Navigator 4.08 for FreeBSD; Netscape Navigator 4.72 for FreeBSD; An MP3 player that uses the xaudio library, FreeBSD version. All of these are a.out executables. Unfortunately, source code isn't available for these, at least not for the part that does the fork/exec. If I start any of these programs from a shell prompt in an xterm window, running the program in the background, there's no zombie after I exit the program. Is this a bug in FreeBSD 3.3? A bug in olvwm 4.2? A "bad interaction" between the two? Have there been any changes in signals/process groups between 2.2.7 and 3.3? Please e-mail me directly: I'm not subscribed to this list. Thanks. -- Carl Mascott cmascott@world.std.com uunet!world!cmascott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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