Re: zombies on Solaris 2.5[.1] with 21.1.3
>>>> "Jan" == Jan Vroonhof
<vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch> writes:
Jan> Gunnar Evermann <ge204(a)eng.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> I seem to remember that there were some problems with zombie
> subprocesses on Solaris before. I couldn't find anything in the
> list-archives. Was this ever understood and fixed
Jan> Something is eating the SIGCHLD's. Back then it seemed related
Jan> to tooltalk+gcc (disabling tooltalk/workshop support has always solved it for
Jan> me). However since I switched to 'cc' the problem also went away.
Jan> That it also occurs with cc is new to me.
I believe this was also related to X11R6 (not openwin). Chuck had me
do a bunch of experiments. I don't remember the outcome, but it fixed
most of the problems.
Ray