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bug#57199: 29.0.50; Processes spawned by Emacs become zombie after resta
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#57199: 29.0.50; Processes spawned by Emacs become zombie after restarting |
Date: |
Sun, 14 Aug 2022 10:52:49 +0300 |
> Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2022 13:30:26 +0600
> From: Akib Azmain Turja via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
> Some child processes don't terminate when Emacs kills them (e.g. Tor).
What is special in those processes? How do they avoid being killed by
Emacs?
> So, trying to kill them after restarting Emacs with "restart-emacs"
> makes those processes zombie. So I have to kill Emacs to remove those
> zombies.
If a process actively resists being killed, then what you see is the
expected behavior, determined by the underlying OS.