From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: child reaping Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 08:03:39 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <50A7B55B.2010304@cs.ucla.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353168233 4582 80.91.229.3 (17 Nov 2012 16:03:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 16:03:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: James Cloos Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 17 17:04:02 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TZksC-0007IO-7y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2012 17:04:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38862 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TZks2-0004ep-65 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:03:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42712) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TZkrx-0004ed-9x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:03:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TZkru-0004zj-69 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:03:45 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:59706) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TZkrt-0004wx-Q8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:03:42 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52C87A6000A; Sat, 17 Nov 2012 08:03:40 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ECkg7BznOhrj; Sat, 17 Nov 2012 08:03:39 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-71-189-154-249.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [71.189.154.249]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 838B9A60001; Sat, 17 Nov 2012 08:03:39 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121028 Thunderbird/16.0.2 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:154902 Archived-At: On 11/16/2012 05:08 PM, James Cloos wrote: > Have there been any changes in the last three or four days which would > affect how emacs reaps its zombie kids? Not in the trunk, no. > On a non-gtk build from a few days ago I get un-reaped zombies for any > process created by (call-process-region). I could not reproduce that bug on my platform (Fedora 17, GCC 4.7.2, configured --with-x-toolkit=lucid). I did a call-process-region on a small buffer a few times, both with the minimal number of arguments and with BUFFER being t, and never created zombies. > The only thing I found in the bzr log which looked related is rev > 110784 That sounds like a plausible rev, but it was installed into the trunk two weeks ago. Did you not do a build, or not use Emacs, for a week or two? If you're still having the problem, might be time for a bug report.