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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. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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