Weird ps behavior

From: alpen (alpenat_private)
Date: Mon Jun 14 1999 - 12:55:24 PDT

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    This bug falls under the category of programs doing the "wrong thing"
(tm).

Under linux 2.3.5 and procps version 1.2.2:

When a user creates a process and it detaches from the current terminal,
if the
account is removed with the deluser,the process(es) stay active but
disappear from
the process table that ps (aux) scrolls. I would assume that it could be
fixed if userdel checked for active processes and terminated them before
removing the account. My C skills aren't
good enough to diagnose whether the disappearing processes are is ps or
a possible poor
decision in the control of process tables in the kernel.

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						-alpen

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