When I try to run 'dislocate' the child dies and leaves
a zombie process while the parent waits for the child
to open the first fifo. This must be a bug in the
expect library. Here is an example (I tried other commands
as well, 'netstat' is just a neat test case)

[ppe@zaphod ppe]$ dislocate -debug netstat --inet -c
parent: writing pidfile
parent: wrote 0#Thu Apr 22 11:45:13 EDT 1999#--inet -c
parent: after fork, pid = 1996
parent: after fork, pid = 0
parent: examining pid
parent: opening /tmp/disc0.o for write
^Z
[1]+  Stopped                 dislocate -debug netstat
--inet -c
[ppe@zaphod ppe]$ ps x
  PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
...
 1992  p1 T    0:00 expect -- /usr/bin/dislocate -debug
netstat --inet -c
 1996  ?  Z    0:00 (dislocate <zombie>)
[ppe@zaphod ppe]$ ls -l /tmp/dis*
prw-rw-r--   1 ppe      ppe             0 Apr 22 11:45
/tmp/disc0.i|
prw-rw-r--   1 ppe      ppe             0 Apr 22 11:45
/tmp/disc0.o|
[ppe@zaphod ppe]$ rpm -q expect tcl tclx
expect-5.26-20
tcl-8.0.3-20
tclx-8.0.3-20

Kernel version 2.2.6



------- Additional Comments From   04/24/99 12:20 -------
1) The example shown is wrong, the right command is
'dislocate -debug debug.out netstat --inet -c'. I remember
that the script did not work without the '-debug' flag.
2) After upgrading to glibc-2.1.1-5, and some other related
upgrades the 'dislocate' works now fine.