On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Glynn Clements wrote:
What does the output from "ps" indicate?
It lists all the processes as defunct: 19981 pts/5 Z 0:00 [suffixtree <defunct>] 19982 pts/5 Z 0:00 [suffixtree <defunct>] 19983 pts/5 Z 0:00 [suffixtree <defunct>] 19984 pts/5 Z 0:00 [suffixtree <defunct>] 19985 pts/5 Z 0:00 [suffixtree <defunct>] ...
If you have any "live" processes (S or R state), it's probably because the process' output hasn't been consumed, so the program hasn't exit()ed yet. OTOH, if you have zombies (Z state), the program has terminated but the parent (your program) hasn't called wait/waitpid (the Haskell interface is getProcessStatus, getProcessGroupStatus or getAnyProcessStatus).
I don't mind evaluating the contents returned strictly, but I can't figure out how to force the process into a dead state...I don't see how any of these three functions accomplishes that...what am I missing? -- Hal Daume III | hdaume@isi.edu "Arrest this man, he talks in maths." | www.isi.edu/~hdaume