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Re: About "defunct" processes
- From: Kurt Franke <Kurt-Franke at web dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 12:26:45 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: About "defunct" processes
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
- References: <531D9E82 dot 1050505 at alice dot it>
Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi <at> alice.it> writes:
> $ ps
> PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND
> 2648 1 2648 2648 ? 1001 12:01:38 /usr/bin/mintty
> 3724 2648 3724 2012 pty0 1001 12:01:38 /usr/bin/bash
> 3176 3724 3176 3832 pty0 1001 12:02:14 /usr/bin/ps
> 1904 2648 2648 1760 ? 1001 12:01:41
> /usr/bin/mintty <defunct>
>
> Why that "defunct" process? I don't remember having seen that before on
> my old Cygwin32 installation.
Hi,
it looks like the cygwin process handling becomes more unix like :-)
in unix exach process has an entry in the process list unless its parent
has do a wait call on it to get the information abouit process termination.
if the parent process teminates the init process will become the new parent
and will do this wait if not already done
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