From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Zombie subprocesses Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:46:18 +0200 Message-ID: <83wqxbs811.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20121123.224945.1073064997137716859.hanche@math.ntnu.no> <50AFF76C.1060101@cs.ucla.edu> <50B084BC.4070908@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353746783 4784 80.91.229.3 (24 Nov 2012 08:46:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 08:46:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: hanche@math.ntnu.no, kbrown@cornell.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 24 09:46:34 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 1TcBNe-0000fo-Hu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 09:46:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52585 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TcBNT-0001va-So for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 03:46:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52964) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TcBNR-0001tT-21 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 03:46:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TcBNP-0005NV-RL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 03:46:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:51206) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TcBNP-0005NR-Im for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 03:46:15 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MDZ00F00HCLJI00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:46:14 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MDZ00FOEHP175A0@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:46:14 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <50B084BC.4070908@cs.ucla.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 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:155054 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:26:36 -0800 > From: Paul Eggert > Cc: Harald Hanche-Olsen , 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.