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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 19:14:43 +0200
From: DervishD <raul@pleyades.net>
To: Marc Giger <gigerstyle@gmx.ch>
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Subject: Re: dead processes
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    Hi Marc :))

    I almost forgot... A process become a zombie if it dies before
its parent, so the parent can retrieve child process status using
'wait()'. If the parent dies before doing this *then* the process
will be inherited by 'init' and ripped at some time.

    Seems like your gpg has died leaving a lot of children and 'init'
hasn't done its harvest yet ;))) Give it some time.

    Ra?l
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