GNU bug report logs - #14474
24.3.50; Zombie subprocesses (again)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de

Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 23:41:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 14474 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de
Cc: 14474 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14474: 24.3.50; Zombie subprocesses (again)
Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 05:55:23 +0300

> From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
> Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 01:38:56 +0200
> 
> In such an Emacs, any child process seems to become a zombie after being
> finished.  E.g., after typing "exit" in a *terminal* running bash, there
> is still a running buffer process.  As a symptom, CPU is used
> continuously at 100% until I C-x C-c.

Can you attach a debugger and see where Emacs is looping?  etc/DEBUG
tells how to do that.

Thanks.
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