Subject: Re: Processes not going away
To: Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net>
From: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@mit.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/11/1996 06:08:36
Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net> writes:

> 
> 	I made a mistake in an expect script earlier (didn't close/wait)
> and the process that I spawned will not go away.  It's sitting there
> marked 'IEs+' and has been for quite a while.  The process that parented
> this one ran off and left it a while ago, so it can't finish properly.
> Any suggestions other than closing and waiting?  I'm running 1.1.

This is probably due to a deadlock involving ptys that I fixed several
months ago.  If you urgently need a patch before 1.2 is out, let me
know and I'll dig it up.