Subject: Re: bug#14474: 24.3.50; Zombie subprocesses (again)

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 23:14:54 -0700

On 05/31/2013 06:22 PM, Colin Walters wrote:
> Why, out of curiosity?

Emacs has a function process-status that returns
a process's status.  Possible statuses include

run  -- for a process that is running.
stop -- for a process stopped but continuable.
exit -- for a process that has exited.
signal -- for a process that has got a fatal signal.

To implement this, Emacs keeps track, for each of its
child processes, what that process's status is.
Emacs updates the information that it records about
a child process whenever it's notified about
a child process status change.