Mail Archives: cygwin/2009/11/23/12:25:22
Warren Young wrote:
> Huang Bambo wrote:
>>> The leak is a result of the parent process not calling wait(2) or
>>> waitpid(2) to reap the child process.
>>
>> There's some diffirence between cygwin and other *nix:
>> In other *nix with this condition, those ended child process could be
>> list by ps command with <defunc>tag
>
> How much sense does it make to talk about zombies in the Cygwin world?
> As soon as the last Cygwin-using process dies, all these resources are
> freed up, right? Oppose a standalone POSIX kernel, where orphaned
> processes get reparented to init(8), which never dies until reboot, and
> the kernel can't be restarted without rebooting the whole machine. On
> such a system, zombies are all but unkillable, not like on Cygwin.
>
> Maybe we need another designation. I suggest "undead skeleton". Easier
> to kill, especially if you have a mace enchanted with shock damage.
>
>> will you fix it?
>
> PTC, I'm sure.
>
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Is anyone else receiving another copy of this message every half hour or
so? I've received 5 copies so far, all apparently identical.
-Jeremy
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