[14:16] <Shred00> 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] <Keybuk> upstart just calls wait() every time through the main loop
[15:54] <Keybuk> and since it gets a SIGCHLD whenever it inherits a zombie, it's guaranteed to wake that up and call wait()
[17:27] <Shred00> hrm.  well, it doesn't seem to be reaping this one:
[17:27] <Shred00> brian    24701     1  5 Nov11 pts/16   01:39:46 [evolution] <defunct>
[17:29] <Shred00> oh wait.  looking at dmesg it seems that process triggered a kernel bug.  ~sigh~