From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: hanche@math.ntnu.no, kbrown@cornell.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Zombie subprocesses
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:46:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wqxbs811.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50B084BC.4070908@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:26:36 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Cc: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> I've also been able to reproduce the bug. Fixing this
> is nontrivial, unfortunately, so I've removed the
> patch from the emacs-24 branch (in bzr 110950).
>
> I will look into it further as soon as I can, and will
> follow up at Bug#8855. I expect that any fix will
> require further shakeout so it seems more appropriate
> for the trunk than for the emacs-24 branch. Sorry.
Is leaving zombie processes here and there really worse than the
conflict with GTK-launched subprocesses? Maybe I'm missing something,
but it sounds to me the other way around. So IMO we should leave the
backported changes on the emacs-24 branch, even if it is eventually
decided not to fix the zombie problem, due to complexities of that
fix.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-24 8:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-23 21:49 Zombie subprocesses Harald Hanche-Olsen
2012-11-23 22:23 ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-23 22:33 ` Ken Brown
2012-11-24 6:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-24 8:24 ` Chong Yidong
2012-11-24 8:26 ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-24 8:46 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-11-24 9:45 ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-24 10:10 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2012-11-27 2:36 ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-24 5:51 ` James Cloos
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