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Author: Philipp Sacha
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To: Nathan Ollerenshaw
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Defunct processes
Nathan Ollerenshaw wrote:
> --
> I know this is pretty harmless, but has anyone else noticed that the
> later versions of exim now leave defunct processes lying around?
>
> exim      1584  0.0  0.2  8224 2080 ?        S    03:08   0:00
> /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q1h
> root      3519  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    04:08   0:00 [exim]
> <defunct>

>
> I'm noticing this on Fedora Core 1 and Fedora Core 2 with exim 4.33
> that comes with FC2 and a hand-rolled 4.34 on FC1.
>
> I guess it could mean there is a missing waitpid() (or something like
> that) call somewhere..
>
> Anyone else seeing this?
>
> Nathan.

Perhaps http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.30/doc/html/FAQ_0.html#TOC46

Regards,

Philipp

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Philipp Sacha mailto:psacha@blue-cable.net



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