Re: Zombie subprocesses

[Chong Yidong]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

>> (call-process "/bin/sleep" nil 0 nil "5")
>> 
>> then this returns immediately, as expected, but after 5 seconds, the
>> subprocess becomes a zombie and never goes away.
>
> It's a bug.  Please file a bug report.  Sigh, and I just put a change
> into emacs-24 that may trigger the same bug.  I'll try to look into
> it later today, but I don't have easy access to OS X so this may
> well require some help.

I can reproduce this on GNU/Linux (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, latest
emacs-24 and trunk).

ps shows the process as "[sleep] <defunct>", which stays until Emacs
exits.  Emacs 24.2 does not have the same problem.

If you are looking into it now, I can wait till I hear back from you
before making the pretest.