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. > > -- > 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 > >
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 -- 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
