Daniel, On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 02:45:08PM +0900, Puzzlet Chung wrote: > Some of my scripts for the cron job, they spawn multiple processes at > once in background and wait till all of them end. But the new patch > from debianutils 4.2 somehow makes the children defunct. > Here's how I reproduced it: > > mkdir -p /tmp/run-parts-test > cd /tmp/run-parts-test > echo $'#!/bin/sh\nls /tmp > /dev/null &\nwait' > test > chmod +x test > run-parts /tmp/run-parts-test > > And the output of ps uf: > > puzzlet 16206 0.0 0.0 22624 4112 pts/9 Ss 13:41 0:00 /bin/bash > puzzlet 6909 0.0 0.0 4052 588 pts/9 S+ 14:34 0:00 \_ > run-parts /tmp/run-parts-test > puzzlet 6910 0.0 0.0 4148 580 pts/9 S+ 14:34 0:00 > \_ /bin/sh /tmp/run-parts-test/test > puzzlet 6911 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/9 Z+ 14:34 0:00 > \_ [ls] <defunct> >
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