Re^2: defunct process are WAY beyond my experienc

[Anonymous Monk]

I would be interested to know from other Monks

Then why don't you search for it ? I mean you've dispensed enough "expert" advice over the years you should already know the answer to a question the OP never asked

[cristj1]

I finally got to the bottom of why my script and threads were hanging. This glibc patch fixed the problem. Bug 906468 - Deadlock in glibc between fork and malloc:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=906468