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Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx processes, please clean up after your children ; -)


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx processes, please clean up after your children ; -)
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 17:05:21 -0400 (EDT)

----- Original Message -----
| From: "Thorsten Glaser" <address@hidden>
| To: address@hidden
| Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 4:26:39 PM
| Subject: [Lynx-dev] lynx processes, please clean up after your children ; -)
| 
| Hi,
| 
| prodded by an IRC snippet I’ll reproduce below, I just had a look:
| 
| address@hidden:~ $ ps x | fgrep lynx
| 17739 p7  ZW+     0:00.00 (lynx)
|  4010 p7  I+      1:08.53 lynx
| 
| These are probably spawned by DNS. Please add the appropriate
| wait*() calls to immediately reap them, and SIGCHLD handling.

It does do that (for quite a long time), e.g., with waitpid.

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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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