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Each time I perform an action which involves the execution of a command, easystroke leaves behind a new zombie process. Naturally, restarting easystroke causes the zombies to be reparented to PID1 and thus disappear.
I am using ubuntu 12.10 and easystroke 0.6.0-0ubuntu3.
The zombie processes are apparently coming from the shell that easystroke opened to execute the command, whose exit status was never checked. This is these processes appear in ps aux:
[sh] <defunct>
[sh] <defunct>
[sh] <defunct>
...