From: tharris tharris Date: 2011-03-28T21:40:36+09:00 Subject: defunct process Hi I am dettaching process like below in my code however I am still getting ruby processes showing as defunct when I do ps -aux. Why would this be happening I thought the 'Process.detach(pid)' would take care of this or am I mistaken? loop do pid = fork do .......... .......... .......... end Process.detach(pid) end -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.