GNU bug report logs - #57199
29.0.50; Processes spawned by Emacs become zombie after restarting

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Akib Azmain Turja <akib <at> disroot.org>

Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2022 07:32:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.0.50

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Akib Azmain Turja <akib <at> disroot.org>
Cc: 57199 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57199: 29.0.50; Processes spawned by Emacs become zombie after restarting
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2022 10:52:49 +0300

> Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2022 13:30:26 +0600
> From:  Akib Azmain Turja via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> Some child processes don't terminate when Emacs kills them (e.g. Tor).

What is special in those processes?  How do they avoid being killed by
Emacs?

> So, trying to kill them after restarting Emacs with "restart-emacs"
> makes those processes zombie.  So I have to kill Emacs to remove those
> zombies.

If a process actively resists being killed, then what you see is the
expected behavior, determined by the underlying OS.
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