On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, Steven Carlson wrote:

> > Try killing with -9... and what machine are you running this on? I don't
> > know about the dt problem..i've never experienced anything like that
> > before...
> 
> Wow! That was a fast reply.  kill -9 doesn't kill 'em I expect it's the
> kernel I'm using, if no one else has experienced it.  I have a few them
> running right now in fact.

When you run ps, do these processes have Z or Z+ in the STAT field? These
are "Zombie" processes, and I have encountered them only once before in
NetBSD - with dt. On older versions of dt, if you exited a virtual console
so that it died, it's processes (i.e. the shell) would hang around in Z+
sleep until one of 2 things happened - 1. you reopen the vc OR 2. you quit
dt, which kills all of the processes spawned during its run.

Is this the sort of thing you're experiencing? This doesn't appear on
my system with post-1.1.4 dt, but did with 1.0.1.

If that's not it, it may be the kernel. :)

-Isaac

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