kdevelop (4.7) launching background *processes*?

[René J.V. Bertin]

Hi,

I just noticed this:

#> ps -axlww | fgrep kdevelop
  505 16877 81395     408e   0  46  0  5605220 695028 -      U                   0 ttys000    8:25.50 kdevelop --ps
  505 17231 16877     2006   0   0  0        0      0 -      Z                   0 ttys000    0:00.00 (kdevelop.bin)
  505 17232 16877     2006   0   0  0        0      0 -      Z                   0 ttys000    0:00.00 (kdevelop.bin)
  505 17233 16877     2006   0   0  0        0      0 -      Z                   0 ttys000    0:00.00 (kdevelop.bin)
  505 17377 16877     2006   0   0  0        0      0 -      Z                   0 ttys000    0:00.00 (kdevelop.bin)
  505 17378 16877     2006   0   0  0        0      0 -      Z                   0 ttys000    0:00.00 (kdevelop.bin)
  505 17379 16877     2006   0   0  0        0      0 -      Z                   0 ttys000    0:00.00 (kdevelop.bin)
  505 17380 16877     2006   0   0  0        0      0 -      Z                   0 ttys000    0:00.00 (kdevelop.bin)

This is on OS X, and the kdevelop entry in my path is actually a symlink to kdevelop.bin, so those zombies are real processes, not some kind of threads as Linux apparently tends to do sometimes.

Does KDevelop indeed launch background processes (and where), or is this some kind of anomaly?

Thanks,
René