On 2008-05-25 15:26:58 -0700, Phil Pennock wrote: > have you tried sending a SIGKILL to force-exit the vlc, to see if > either zsh or init can reap the process then?
This has no effect. > Does ps(1) actually show the 'Z' for zombie? Yes (BTW, this was in my second message). Now, I could reproduce the problem with both bash and pdksh. I don't know why I couldn't reproduce it the first times while it is 100% reproducible under zsh (perhaps timings are a bit different). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]