[plug] GDM hanging, leaving zombies

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Mon Oct 20 16:39:34 WST 2003


On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 04:29:21PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
| BTW I am too busy to think more about Craig's problem since I last
| posted. However, I was wondering: does anyone know a quick way of seeing
| what sort of wait-state a process is in (i.e. select, poll, semphore,
| sleep/nanosleep, pipe, etc.)?

If I understand you correctly: attaching ptrace or gdb to the process
will tell you which system call is causing a process to sleep...

CP.

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