[14:16] does upstart's init ever periodically "wait" to reap zombies it might have inherited? if not, can i force it to wait on a zombie that it inherited? [15:53] upstart just calls wait() every time through the main loop [15:54] and since it gets a SIGCHLD whenever it inherits a zombie, it's guaranteed to wake that up and call wait() [17:27] hrm. well, it doesn't seem to be reaping this one: [17:27] brian 24701 1 5 Nov11 pts/16 01:39:46 [evolution] [17:29] oh wait. looking at dmesg it seems that process triggered a kernel bug. ~sigh~