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.