After logging out in gnome3 or xfce, I still see some of the user's processes

[Joachim Backes]

On 06/15/2011 02:39 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 21:55 +0930, Tim wrote:
>> You can log out and find some things still
>> running in your name, that haven't quit, and have no reason to still
>> be
>> around (it's not as if you started up some services that you wanted to
>> run in your name, and stay running after you logged out).
> 
> And if you do, that's what nohup is for.
> 
>> e.g. Several instances of gvfs-fuse-daemon, crashed mplayers,
>> gconfd-2,
>> firefox (that requires a reboot to kill, not even kill -9 will kill
>> it),
> 
> If kill -9 won't kill it, it's suspended in an uninterruptible state in
> the kernel, usually waiting for some "short term" event that will never
> happen. IOW it's a bug. This sort of thing has always existed in Unix
> and related systems and is a PITA, but it's not easy to fix.
> 
> poc
> 

But *all* such processes I saw could be killed by "kill" or "kill -9"
(from some tty after having logged out) so why they still exist?

-- 
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes


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