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

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Colin Walters <walters <at> verbum.org>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>,
	Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>, 14474 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14474: 24.3.50; Zombie subprocesses (again)
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.
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