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- From: lmfken@lmf.ericsson.se (Kenneth Osterberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: What causes these Zombie processes?
- Message-ID: <lmfken.726390739@bluese2>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 07:12:19 GMT
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- tjrc1@cus.cam.ac.uk (T.J.R. Cutts) writes:
- >Are you using olwm? I've only ever seen these zombies when running olwm,
- >and they all disappear when I leave X. How are you exiting X?
- >Selecting Exit... from the default menu under olwm cleans up all the
- >zombies for me.
-
- Yes, it's a known bug with the olwm from xview3L2, it doesn't wait
- properly for children it spawns from the root menu. I have a fix, but
- I'd suggest you wait for the next xview release as the problem isn't
- very serious.
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- Kenneth Osterberg lmfken@lmf.ericsson.se or lmfken@bluese1.ericsson.fi
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