<defunct>: too many from pipe

[Steve Searle]

Around 08:08pm on Monday, August 20, 2007 (UK time), Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED scrawled:

> Thanks to Andy Green and Alan Cox; I added the line to my pipe
> class destructor and my problem is solved.  While this is not a
> problem, I note that the following:
> 
> root at mbrc32 MdbUtil]# ps -ef | grep defunct | grep -v grep
> root      7808  1898  0 14:27 ?        00:00:00 [sh] <defunct>
> root      7811  1898  0 14:27 ?        00:00:00 [sh] <defunct>
> 
> persists with the same pids through several executions of the
> command that should kill all zombies.

What command?  I understood that you couldn't kill zombies (without
rebooting) - that's why they are so named.  But I'm no expert.

Steve

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