From: lmfken@lmf.ericsson.se (Kenneth Osterberg) Subject: Re: What causes these Zombie processes? Date: 7 Jan 1993 07:12:19 GMT
tjrc1@cus.cam.ac.uk (T.J.R. Cutts) writes:
>Are you using olwm? I've only ever seen these zombies when running olwm,
>and they all disappear when I leave X. How are you exiting X?
>Selecting Exit... from the default menu under olwm cleans up all the
>zombies for me.
Yes, it's a known bug with the olwm from xview3L2, it doesn't wait
properly for children it spawns from the root menu. I have a fix, but
I'd suggest you wait for the next xview release as the problem isn't
very serious.