Bug 16741
| Summary: | /usr/bin/netscape leaves behind a defunct process | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | josip |
| Component: | netscape | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.2 | CC: | rvokal |
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2001-01-07 15:44:30 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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I see this all the time! changed as of netscape-4.76-5. |
Here is what happens: $ netscape & [1] 11959 $ ps PID TTY TIME CMD 11953 pts/0 00:00:00 bash 11959 pts/0 00:00:01 netscape-commun 11974 pts/0 00:00:00 netscape <defunct> 11975 pts/0 00:00:00 netscape-commun 11977 pts/0 00:00:00 ps The cause is a missing 'sleep 1' between backgrounding a command and 'exec' in the /usr/bin/netscape script. The function newbrowser() in /usr/bin/netscape should insert some delay between '... &' and 'exec ...' and I suggest the following: if [ "$url" = "" ]; then [ ${rerun:=0} -eq 1 ] && { sleep 3; $netscape $defsrem "xfeDoCommand($b_opt)" '$@' 2>/dev/null ; } & sleep 1 exec $netscape $defs $cl_opt "$@" else exec $netscape $defs "$@" fi With 'sleep 1' inserted as shown above, there are no defunct processes left behind: $ netscape & [1] 30277 $ ps PID TTY TIME CMD 15341 pts/1 00:00:00 bash 30277 pts/1 00:00:01 netscape-commun 30345 pts/1 00:00:00 netscape-commun 31128 pts/1 00:00:00 ps I hope this helps... Josip