From owner-help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Nov 28 05:58:43 1996
Subject: Re: zombie "ls" 
From: Mario Storti <mstorti at galileo dot unl dot edu dot ar>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 09:02:14 -0300


>>>>> Thu, 28 Nov 1996 10:42:57 +0000 (GMT)
                Ted dot Harding at nessie dot mcc dot ac dot uk (Ted Harding) 

> Hi Folks,
> 
> I don't usually run "ls" from within octave, preferring to observe disk
> life through a different window, so hadn't noticed this one before.
> 
> But this time I noticed, after "ps -ax":
> 
>  6851 pp2 Z <   0:00 (ls) <zombie>
>  6854 pp2 Z <   0:00 (ls) <zombie>
>  6855 pp2 Z <   0:00 (ls) <zombie>
>  6968 pp2 Z <   0:00 (ls) <zombie>
>  8149 pp2 Z <   0:00 (ls) <zombie>
> 
> and, in fact, each time I execute the octave command "ls" I get a new
> zombie process. ("pp2" = ttyp2 is the octave window).
> 
> Since "ls is a builtin text-function [to] print a directory listing", one
> feels that it should not be creating zombies. Or does this only happen on
> some OS's (Linux in my case)?
> 
> Yours curiously,
> Ted.                                    (Ted dot Harding at nessie dot mcc dot ac dot uk)

This happens also in my Linux 1.1.59 system, Octave 1.1.1.

Mario

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