[Dovecot] defunct processes

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 07:40 -0400, LDB wrote:
> > Are you using PAM? It probably has something to do with it. In any case
> > since you're using 0.99 version, I'd just suggest upgrading to 1.0rc. It
> > probably has already fixed the problem.
> 
> Yes, I am using PAM. Why do you ask and what is your theory?

Each PAM lookup creates a new dovecot-auth process, but I don't really
know why they would be left in defunct-state. Those defunct processes
are cleaned up when the main dovecot-auth process calls waitpid()
function, but that's done every second..

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