[Haskell-cafe] terminateProcess leaves zombie processes around

[Brandon Allbery]

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:27, Felipe Almeida Lessa
<felipe.lessa at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.


Yes, and they count against the per-uid process limit.

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