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Re: About "defunct" processes


On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:26:45PM +0000, Kurt Franke wrote:
>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 :-)

Right.  It's a new feature that I implemented sometime around 1998 or so.

cgf

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