Re: [RP] Patch to stop shells from being left around

[shawn]

Mike Meyer <address@hidden> writes:

> I noticed that the exec and xterm commands tended to leave an "sh -c"
> hanging around. This seems strange considering the "ugly dance" that
> spawn goes through to prevent zombies, as zombies only take up a
> process slot but the shells use memory that would otherwise be free.

Does the "sh -c" go away after the command is finished? Someone else
was having this problem. I think he was using 'ash' for /bin/sh. For
me /bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/bash. I have noticed that "sh -c"'s
are not left behind...for me anyway.

What 'sh' are you using?