[OpenAFS] Zombie processes on AFS

[Turbo Fredriksson]

Quoting Dave McMurtrie <dgm+@pitt.edu>:

> What's your dpkg-source perl script do?  Is it forking kids, but not
> calling wait or waitpid?

Looking at it and searching for 'fork' (and watching below it) reveals
that it uses 'waitpid()'.


Now, the thing is that I've been running it a multidude (about 10) times
before (it wasn't correctly built, so I tried again and again and ...).

The processes are still there, either 'D'ead or 'Z'ombie...
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