On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 08:41 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > Sorry about taking so long to get back to you. No problem ;)
> I don't know what a "hidden process" would be, and aptitude certainly > doesn't hide any processes that it runs. Yeah,.. of course not .... I didn't suspect you to have some rootkit in it ;).... but I thought you may perhaps use some special threading library or whatever.... as I've only noticed these hidden processes with aptitude... > It's possible the apt backend library is spawning some > stuff off, though; does apt-get do the same thing for you? Uhm,... I'll have a look,.. but I don't use apt-get regularly,... so not sure about it... > I also don't think this is a grave bug, so I'm going to downgrade it. Yeah,.. sorry for marking it as grave,.. but it could have been security related,... and better on grave bug to much as to less, IMHO ;) Best wishes, Chris. btw: Perhaps you can have a quick look at #515916.... it may also be security related, at least in principle.
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