Anyone see a problem here? stix-pbg3:ksh$ ps alx | egrep 'PID|3978' UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND 0 3979 3978 0 31 0 14108 336 - S ?? 0:00.02 VirtualPC_Services stix-pbg3:ksh$ uname -a Darwin stix-pbg3 6.6 Darwin Kernel Version 6.6: Fri Jun 27 00:36:43 EST 2003; stix:BUILD/obj/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc The parent was "killed" via the WindowServer/LoginServer machanism, not that that should matter. The only thing to note is that the program is suid root. Killing the process leaves it a zombie, and zombies always have a PPID of 0, as reported by ps(1). If I get a chance, I'll see if I can come up with a simpler test case. Cheers, -- Paul Ripke Unix/OpenVMS/TSM/DBA 101 reasons why you can't find your Sysadmin: 68: It's 9AM. He/She is not working that late. -- Koos van den Hout _______________________________________________ darwin-kernel mailing list | darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/darwin-kernel Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.