From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Zombie subprocesses
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 14:23:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50AFF76C.1060101@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121123.224945.1073064997137716859.hanche@math.ntnu.no>
On 11/23/2012 01:49 PM, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> I recently discovered that emacs has a bunch of zombie subprocesses.
> A bit of experimenting reveals that if I run
>
> (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.
>
> Is this the intended behaviour, or a bug? Should I file a bug report?
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-23 22:23 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 [this message]
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
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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