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Subject: Re: Defunct processes with 1.5.25-15; seemingly reproducible
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On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 01:52:45PM -0500, Dave Steenburgh wrote:
>It is my understanding that this problem is not easily reproducible.
>Well, I've been reproducing it locally since last night. ?I'm going to
>try leaving every cygwin-related process as-is as long as necessary,
>in the hope of beating this problem into submission.
>
>The problem:
>
>$ ps
>? ? ?PID ? ?PPID ? ?PGID ? ? WINPID ?TTY ?UID ? ?STIME COMMAND
>...
>? ? 4164 ? ?1288 ? ?7684 ? ? ? 5504 ? ?6 1003 23:49:20 <defunct>
>? ? 5392 ? ?3224 ? ?5984 ? ? ? 6100 ? ?5 1003 23:49:06 <defunct>
>? ? 1452 ? ?5240 ? ?5984 ? ? ? 8104 ? ?5 1003 23:49:06 <defunct>
>? ? 5240 ? ?3224 ? ?5984 ? ? ? 4532 ? ?5 1003 23:49:06 <defunct>
>...

Defunct processes are not necessarily indicative of a cygwin problem.
This could easily be a problem with gnuplot.

cgf

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