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Article #69vi(1) bug - defunct processes
From: Tom Neff
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1989 18:22
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1989 18:22
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To heck with mailx(1), this is worse. Why am I just noticing these things now? I have: AT&T UNIX System V/386 3.2.1 /usr/bin/vi.sl 1.1 3.2 06/24/88 40949 AT&T-SF The symptom: Every time you pass a piece of an open file through a filter (e.g., 'spell', 'filter' etc) using the ! <cursor-move> operator, 'vi' leaves the process it used hanging <defunct> in the system, not removed. After enough filter operations, there are no free processes in the system and things grind to a halt. The processes cannot be killed while 'vi' is still running, even with signal 9 from root. Only exiting vi fixes it. What a damned annoyance. Is this known and TBFIAFR? -- "We walked on the moon -- (( Tom Neff you be polite" )) tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bfmny0!tneff From: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5 Subject: vi(1) bug - defunct processes Message-ID: <14562@bfmny0.UUCP> Date: 18 Aug 89 18:22:45 GMT Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) Organization: TSTS (Tri-State Transsubstantiation Services) Lines: 19 Summary: Filter (!) operator leaves a defunct process every time