From: urimr@ibm.net (Uri Margalit)
Subject: defunct on AIX 4.1
Date: 1998/09/09
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Hi,

I'm ORACLE DBA on AIX 4.1.5 .
I've a program who always run in the system and receive messages from
ORACLE pipe. For each message the program called (listener) fork
another program.
The "listener" mark to receive a SIGCHLD signal with the sigaction
routine.

The "listener" receive a lots of messages and after the child ends i
have a lot of defuncts.

I wrote a littler program who fork another program, and there wasn't
any defunct. (even if in the child i open a file and doing malloc
without closing the file or free the storage).

So my opinuoin is that somehow ORACLE responsible to the defuncts.

ORACLE 7.3.4
ProC         2.3.4
i use the ORA_CLIENT_LIB=shared (shared libraries).

Please respone to my email
urimr@ibm.net


Thank you for your time.