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24.3.50; Zombie subprocesses (again)

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From: Colin Walters <walters <at> verbum.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>, 14474 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14474: 24.3.50; Zombie subprocesses (again)
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 12:09:39 -0400

On Sat, 2013-06-01 at 10:33 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Emacs has a function process-status that returns
> > a process's status.
> 
> Not only that, but the process-sentinel is called when the status
> changes.  This said, I don't know if there are any process-sentinels out
> there that need to be told when a process is stopped or "continued".

Right; I kind of doubt it.  Regardless though, I filed:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701538

Are there any other blocking issues for Emacs using the GLib mainloop?
If that's the only one I can probably get around to doing a patch this
week.

I suspect though you could simply not report stopped status, and not
break any real world programs.  The only thing I can think of is a
multiprocess application which sends SIGSTOP to children (but why would
they do that?).

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