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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