Sudo has racecondition leaving sudo with its zombie child running forever
Issue
Sometimes when running a command using sudo, it never finishes. In that case the executed command already exited and is left as Zombie which is never collected by sudo.
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8
sudo-1.7.2p1-13.el5
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