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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
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-Jeremy

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