xfce-exec functions spawns zombies
Jasper Huijsmans
jasper at xfce.org
Sat Jan 21 10:26:15 CET 2006
Jean-François Wauthy schreef:
> Hi,
>
> I haven't updated libxfcegui4 for a while and i did it this morning and
> since then every program launched by xfce4-session or xfdesktop
> terminated as zombies.
Ok, I believe danny is trying to do something clever with the pid to
cancel startup notification when the process exits. This apparently
doesn't work :(
While looking at the code I found nothing obviously wrong, but I did
find this in the glib API docs:
"Note further that using g_child_watch_source_new() is not compatible
with calling waitpid(-1) in the application. Calling waitpid() for
individual pids will still work fine."
I think this means it can't be used in the library. For instance, the
panel uses waitpid(-1) to handle external plugins.
Jasper
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