xfce-exec functions spawns zombies

Daichi Kawahata daichi at xfce.org
Fri Jan 20 22:57:23 CET 2006


On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:28:02 +0100
Jean-François Wauthy wrote:

> Hi,

Hi,

> I haven't updated libxfcegui4 for a while and i did it this
> morning and since then every program launched by xfce4-session
> or xfdesktop terminated as zombies.

Good to hear I wasn't only one, it's been there since before
for a while.

> I'll try to determine the revision number that brings this
> issue but i wanted to bring that to everyone attention.

Even after rev. 19510, a terminated process turns "<defunct>"
(a PPID is a PID of xfdesktop).

Regards,
-- 
Daichi

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