On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 10:06:50AM -0500, David Joyner wrote:
> I wonder if anyone has run into the problem where maxima
> creates a lisp.run process which doesn't die. If so, how was
> it dealt with? Maxima is included in SAGE (sage.scipy.org)
> and often lisp.run zombies are left after exiting.
If I recall correctly, a zombie is a process that has died already but
that is kept around because the parent process hasn't yet taken notice
of its death. So in that case the problem must lie not with the
lisp.run process but by whatever its parent is.
At least that is how it was explained to me years ago.
HTH,
Albert.