From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: delete-process bug
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 17:26:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85zmh6w2ge.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wtca6sna.fsf@lrde.org> (Michaël Cadilhac's message of "Thu, 25 May 2006 17:17:13 +0200")
michael.cadilhac@lrde.org (Michaël Cadilhac) writes:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
>>> This is not really due to my patch. However, it shows a real race
>>> condition in process management of Emacs:
>> [...]
>>> After an hour of debugging, I can propose a small change that fixes
>>> this bug and lets no room for any other race condition of that kind,
>>> AFAICT.
>> [...]
>>> + * process.c (Fdelete_process): Wait for process termination to
>>> + avoid `sigchld_handler' to consider the process to be synchronous.
>>
>> I don't think it's a good idea. The process might not die in response to
>> delete-process, so we would end up waiting "indefinitely".
>
> Well, I copied the behavior of call_process, and tried to minimize
> the patch. However, I'm interested in knowing when a process
> doesn't answer a SIGKILL? I thought it was a non-ignorable signal.
That merely means that the process will never run again. It puts it
into "zombie" state. It will not get removed until the scheduler gets
around to start the cleanup, and then the cleanup still has to finish
(all files and sockets have to be closed). When devices are stuck,
this can take arbitrarily long.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-25 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-24 19:36 Ispell loads dict twice Michaël Cadilhac
2006-04-26 10:14 ` Agustin Martin
2006-04-26 21:58 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2006-05-23 18:26 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2006-05-24 11:28 ` Agustin Martin
2006-05-25 10:57 ` delete-process bug (was: Ispell loads dict twice.) Michaël Cadilhac
2006-05-25 12:19 ` Agustin Martin
2006-05-25 14:55 ` delete-process bug Stefan Monnier
2006-05-25 14:59 ` David Kastrup
2006-05-25 15:17 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2006-05-25 15:26 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2006-05-25 19:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-05-25 23:51 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-05-26 4:49 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-26 13:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-05-26 2:22 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-26 11:29 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2006-05-27 3:36 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-26 13:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-05-26 17:27 ` Michael Mauger
2006-05-27 9:19 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2006-05-27 14:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-05-27 14:29 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2006-05-28 16:01 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2006-05-28 18:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-05-28 18:32 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2006-05-28 19:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-05-28 20:26 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2006-05-28 21:15 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-05-28 21:36 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2006-05-28 23:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-05-29 11:39 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2006-05-29 8:22 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-05-29 8:50 ` David Kastrup
2006-05-29 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-29 19:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-29 21:42 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-05-29 22:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-29 3:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-29 8:14 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-05-29 10:59 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2006-05-29 19:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-29 20:04 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2006-05-29 21:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-29 21:42 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2006-05-29 22:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-29 22:32 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2006-05-30 12:11 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-05-30 12:42 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2006-05-30 14:26 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-05-30 15:13 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2006-06-01 14:06 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-06-01 14:20 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2006-06-01 14:29 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-06-01 16:05 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2006-06-02 7:46 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-06-01 16:41 ` Agustin Martin
2006-06-01 16:55 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2006-05-29 23:07 ` Agustin Martin
2006-05-25 23:52 ` delete-process bug (was: Ispell loads dict twice.) Kim F. Storm
2006-06-06 20:45 ` Ispell loads dict twice Michaël Cadilhac
2006-06-09 13:02 ` Kim F. Storm
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