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From: Charlie Brady <charlieb-supervision@budge.apana.org.au>
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Subject: Re: runit not collecting zombies
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On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Alex Efros wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 11:11:56AM -0400, Charlie Brady wrote:
>> If you have fixed your cron job as I suggested, you will no longer have
>> the reaping race, so you should never see any such zombies.
>
> Nope. As reported by me and other people in this thread, such zombies
> produced also by sshd and other software.

I'm not suggesting that it's impossible to create zombies reparented to 
process 1 or that runit doesn't have a problem in dealing with such 
zombies. I was merely asserting that if you fix your cron job, it will no 
longer create zombies reparented to process 1.

Your cron job, as posted, is a good test case for generating such zombies, 
because of the pointless (AFAICT) fork/ignore child/exit shell script.