From: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
To: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Zombie subprocesses
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:51:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3k3tbpmyd.fsf@carbon.jhcloos.org> (raw)
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)")
>>>>> "HH" == Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no> 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
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-24 5:51 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
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 [this message]
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