Deron Meranda wrote:
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 23:46:56 -0500, Scot L. Harris webid@cfl.rr.com wrote:
So if the parent process crashes all of the child processes will be cleared?
When a parent process dies, all of it's children (whether currently running or if they're zombies), are "inherited" by the main init process, always process ID 1. And init will always immediately reap any zombies. (Init is really a fake process which serves as the process-face to the kernel itself.) So in effect, if the parent process of a zombie dies, then the zombies will immediately be reaped and disappear almost immediately.
So is this a bug in Firefox?
james 17993 17988 5 08:13 ? 00:01:19 /usr/lib/firefox-1.0/firefox-bin -UILocale en-US james 18003 17993 0 08:14 ? 00:00:00 [netstat] <defunct>
If so, I will look for a bug entry at Bugzilla.