On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 18:37:17 +0530 B S Srinidhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
babbled:

> On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 15:46 +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> > its not spauwning a new e as such - its simply forking off a lot of
> > children to
> 
> There's only one instance that is getting forked.

it only forks off 1 at a time. so only 1 will be around (1 extra child fork) at
any 1 time. itwont fork another until the first exits.

> > generate thumbnails. they will go away once it has generated all the
> > thumbnails. it MAY be the child process is getting stuck and not actually
> 
> I also cleared all the (old) thumbnails from ~/.e/e/fileman/thumbnails
> and then started EFM. Once again, a new E (only one) was *forked*. There
> were no thumbnails generated... The *child* process never stopped. When
> I later killed it using `kill -9`, I got the *white box*.
> 
> Now, there's only one file in the thumbs directory:
> 
> $ ls .e/e/fileman/thumbnails/
> 1[c2003c0000c'2000pje]21
> 
> > exiting on its own - if it is - gdb attach and find out. but it shoudl
> > literallylive for as long as is needed to generate a thumbnail and exit.
> 
> Let me see if I can get a gdb trace. (I haven't compiled E with the '-g'
> flag :)
> 
> Srinidhi.

find what the child is hung on - thatsthe trick here.

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