site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... When an application crashes in Mac OS X, there is a dialog inviting you to report the problem to Apple (even if it's not an application made by Apple), quit or reopen the process. While playing with Google Earth, I experienced an application crash (100% reproducible) On this particular occasion, when I clicked on Reopen, the application was apparently correctly relaunched (window is visible) but: - the Google Earth window was not accessible - the Google Earth Application was not shown in the Dock as being launched - the Google Earth Application was not visible when you use the Command + Tab shortcut to switch between applications - the Google Earth Application was not visible in the Force Quit Applications window (Cmd+alt+Esc) - the Google Earth window was not clickable When I clicked the application in the Dock, another instance of the application was launched (yet I just have one "file" for this application). When I launched a ps -aux in the Terminal, the process was correctly listed. A "kill -1" killed it. I tried to reproduce the issue with an application crashing only one with no success. So stupid question, how can a process be invisible to most OS services (such as LaunchServices, ProcessManager (probably), etc.)? This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com