Subject: 23.0.60; Child process not cleaned up properly

From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:23:28 -0400

> 1. M-x compile
> 2. Enter in: sudo apt-get install gimp-help-en
> 4. Kill the buffer, and expect the underlying process to die
> 5. Open up a shell, and type ps to see that the apt-get process still
>    exists

I suspect Emacs may fail to kill the process due to insufficient
permissions: it's a sudo process.

If you run Emacs with sudo, does the same problem appear?