From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: James Cloos Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Zombie subprocesses Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:51:45 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20121123.224945.1073064997137716859.hanche@math.ntnu.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353736618 15801 80.91.229.3 (24 Nov 2012 05:56:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 05:56:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Harald Hanche-Olsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 24 06:57:10 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 1Tc8jl-0003Vx-9H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 06:57:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34012 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tc8ja-0003tD-JG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:56:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59525) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tc8jY-0003t6-Fj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:56:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tc8jX-0000qw-GB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:56:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eagle.jhcloos.com ([207.210.242.212]:33770) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tc8jX-0000qp-7p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:56:55 -0500 Original-Received: by eagle.jhcloos.com (Postfix, from userid 10) id 7628D40107; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 05:56:25 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=jhcloos.com; s=eagle; t=1353736609; bh=62CwqyJG7EmLIp6O4bksPPjxPQl5glGBtxMuX0D+bhg=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=gtsH2Yw+b6ojR4OE+auVgi9bQH/2mavqTHyUOWzqichBc6m9lg+rNOUCR/n/SYHT/ ZniKmQhIxZvCR6KdI5/WwyOC4z6NocbxSGSPIiQcs20q28lNAzJbb8/9EWmB/K1Eyu HTgkJCHDOOLPGLLcN5S+XJPKKn57F86QfQlRor7s= Original-Received: by carbon.jhcloos.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 546C86001E; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 05:51:45 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <20121123.224945.1073064997137716859.hanche@math.ntnu.no> (Harald Hanche-Olsen's message of "Fri, 23 Nov 2012 22:49:45 +0100 (CET)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQAgMAAABinRfyAAAACVBMVEX///8ZGXBQKKnCrDQ3 AAAAJElEQVQImWNgQAAXzwQg4SKASgAlXIEEiwsSIYBEcLaAtMEAADJnB+kKcKioAAAAAElFTkSu QmCC Copyright: Copyright 2012 James Cloos OpenPGP: ED7DAEA6; url=http://jhcloos.com/public_key/0xED7DAEA6.asc OpenPGP-Fingerprint: E9E9 F828 61A4 6EA9 0F2B 63E7 997A 9F17 ED7D AEA6 Original-Lines: 16 X-Hashcash: 1:30:121124:hanche@math.ntnu.no::V3X9zjq0YLvfPqM1:00000000000000000000000000000000000000000qpnuO X-Hashcash: 1:30:121124:emacs-devel@gnu.org::IjraobEz0SR8zh1T:00000000000000000000000000000000000000000obOLg X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 207.210.242.212 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:155050 Archived-At: >>>>> "HH" == Harald Hanche-Olsen writes: HH> A bit of experimenting reveals that if I run HH> (call-process "/bin/sleep" nil 0 nil "5") HH> then this returns immediately, as expected, but after 5 seconds, HH> the subprocess becomes a zombie and never goes away. Thanks for finding an easy way to reproduce this bug. I had asked about it, but have been too busy elsewhere to follow up. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6