#27 Creating defunct processes

[Anonymous]

shttpd is creating defunct processes when it encounters an error on AIX.

if a page isn't found or if a command fails then a defunct proccess is created. the original process is not killed though. it looks like it is trying to fork a process and if it doesn't work it just dies.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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addition to defunct processes, it also appears to create defunct processes when a perl system command is executed. eg if you execute something like $result=`ls -l` a defunct process is created.