From: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Zombie subprocesses
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 16:24:49 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871ufj1k8e.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50AFF76C.1060101@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Fri, 23 Nov 2012 14:23:40 -0800")
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
>> (call-process "/bin/sleep" nil 0 nil "5")
>>
>> then this returns immediately, as expected, but after 5 seconds, the
>> subprocess becomes a zombie and never goes away.
>
> It's a bug. Please file a bug report. Sigh, and I just put a change
> into emacs-24 that may trigger the same bug. I'll try to look into
> it later today, but I don't have easy access to OS X so this may
> well require some help.
I can reproduce this on GNU/Linux (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, latest
emacs-24 and trunk).
ps shows the process as "[sleep] <defunct>", which stays until Emacs
exits. Emacs 24.2 does not have the same problem.
If you are looking into it now, I can wait till I hear back from you
before making the pretest.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-24 8:24 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 [this message]
2012-11-24 8:26 ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-24 8:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
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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