[Haskell-cafe] terminateProcess leaves zombie processes around

Felipe Almeida Lessa felipe.lessa at gmail.com
Wed Dec 7 16:27:05 CET 2011


On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
> They *do* terminate; a zombie is a dead process waiting for its parent to
> reap it with waitForProcess.  There's also some POSIX stuff you can do to
> have them auto-reaped, but doing that correctly and portably is somewhat
> painful.

But zombie processes do consume a row in the process table, right?  If
so, then it's bad to have them around.

-- 
Felipe.



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