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Zombie subprocesses
From: |
Harald Hanche-Olsen |
Subject: |
Zombie subprocesses |
Date: |
Fri, 23 Nov 2012 22:49:45 +0100 (CET) |
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?
This is on OS X 10.8.2, Emacs built from trunk a couple weeks ago.
(I use this technique to start external viewers for various types of
files. But the program I use the most forks on its own, so I can
easily replace the argument 0 by nil and avoid the problem. But I
thought it worth reporting anyhow.)
- Harald
- Zombie subprocesses,
Harald Hanche-Olsen <=
- Re: Zombie subprocesses, Paul Eggert, 2012/11/23
- Re: Zombie subprocesses, Ken Brown, 2012/11/23
- Re: Zombie subprocesses, Chong Yidong, 2012/11/24
- Re: Zombie subprocesses, Paul Eggert, 2012/11/24
- Re: Zombie subprocesses, Harald Hanche-Olsen, 2012/11/24
- Re: Zombie subprocesses, Paul Eggert, 2012/11/26
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