[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] watchpid slave command

[Uoti Urpala]

On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 16:04 -0400, Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> I haven't had much time to investigate the issue, but I've noticed that
> MPlayer sometimes leaves useless (not zombies, technically) processes
> lying around.  Starting mplayer seems to create two processes, and if I
> kill -9 my front-end, one of the processes dies properly, but the other
> lives on.
> 
> This is reproducible even without a front-end.
> 
> Let's say I:
> 
>         tack at viper:~$ mplayer foo.avi

Do you have cache forced on? Normally MPlayer should not spawn
additional processes when playing a local file.