On Monday 09 January 2006 01:32 pm, Jan C. Nordholz wrote: > Hi Marc, > > > I am having a similar problem. I keep my box on 24x7 and X is up the > > whole time. I have a window devoted to TkRemind to provide me with a > > calendar. It also pops up a reminder window each night at midnight with > > the next day's reminders. The problem is that it runs remind each time > > to get the new reminders and then it leaves the zombie process behind, > > and it can not be killed, even with a signal 9. (Even as root, I can > > not get rid of these processes.) > > a zombie process is a different thing. Zombie processes don't exist > anymore, and their memory has already been freed. The only thing left is > the return code, which the parent process can retrieve via C's wait(), > waitpid() and friends. As long as the father process doesn't recollect its > dead children (or terminates itself), those zombies will remain and, > because they're no real processes anymore, not respond to signals. > > So summing up, this sounds like a bug in TkRemind... where exactly is > TkRemind? Could you name me the package? (I'd go look myself, but > packages.d.o is currently down...)
I don't know what language TKRemind is written in, but if it is in Perl, the fix should be easy enough. It just needs a variable set to ignore zombies. Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
