Re: Zombie subprocesses

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 17:33:59 -0500
> From: Ken Brown <address@hidden>
> Cc: Harald Hanche-Olsen <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> On 11/23/2012 5:23 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > On 11/23/2012 01:49 PM, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> >> I recently discovered that emacs has a bunch of zombie subprocesses.
> >> A bit of experimenting reveals that if I run
> >>
> >> (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.
> >>
> >> Is this the intended behaviour, or a bug? Should I file a bug report?
> >
> > 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 Cygwin (on the emacs-24 branch with your latest 
> change), so it's not just an OS X issue.

Doesn't happen in the native MS-Windows build, FWIW.  I tried on the
emacs-24 branch after Paul back-ported the sub-process related changes
from trunk.