From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 Description of problem: Sometimes Mozilla spawns netstat processes that become defunct. I don't yet know what circumstances cause this. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mozilla-1.4-12, net-tools-1.60-18.1 How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run Mozilla. 2. ??? :( Actual Results: [root@i5000e root]# ps -ef|egrep '([n]etstat|[m]ozilla)' barryn 1787 1 2 00:07 ? 00:01:43 /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/mozilla-bin -UILocale en-US barryn 1807 1787 0 00:07 ? 00:00:00 [netstat <defunct>] [root@i5000e root]# Expected Results: [root@i5000e root]# ps -ef|egrep '([n]etstat|[m]ozilla)' barryn 1787 1 2 00:07 ? 00:01:43 /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/mozilla-bin -UILocale en-US [root@i5000e root]# Additional info: I'm sorry that this report is so vague, but this is all I've been able to come up with so far. If I can figure anything else out, I'll post more comments to this bug.
It's intentional. It's part of how the SSL libraries generate random information for the crypto routines.
*** Bug 157731 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***