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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Emacs Development <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Zombie subprocesses (again)
Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 04:34:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8761y7ss7z.fsf@web.de> (raw)

Hello,

I'm using emacs-snapshot on Debian, a four days old build of trunk.

I didn't know about this zombie subprocess bug (bug#12980) at all until
today, where I experienced the following:

- I start Emacs in X as a different user (via gksu), or

- I start Emacs from an X session that was started with startx

In such an Emacs, any child process seems to become a zombie after
being finished.  E.g., when I type "exit" in an *terminal* running bash,
there is still a running buffer process.  As a symptom, CPU
is used at 100% until I C-x C-c.

However, if I log in via display manager and don't switch to another
user via gksu, this doesn't happen.  And: it happens with the gtk
version as well as with lucid, but not with emacs -nw in an xterm.

Is this a new issue?  Or could it be my setup?


Thanks,

Michael.



             reply	other threads:[~2013-05-25  2:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-25  2:34 Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2013-05-25  8:50 ` Zombie subprocesses (again) Paul Eggert
2013-05-25 23:45   ` Michael Heerdegen

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