From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-03-28T23:09:41+09:00
Subject: Re: defunct process

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:40 PM, tharris tharris <a3358940@jnxjn.com> wrote:
> 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

I don't think there is a fixed guarantee how fast the reaping occurs.
It may be that the reaper thread(s) simply did not yet get CPU cycles
to do their job.

Cheers

robert

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