Re: [Haskell-cafe] terminateProcess leaves zombie processes around

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:27, Felipe Almeida Lessa wrote:

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:

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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. -- brandon s allbery allbery.b@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms