On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 01:36:16PM -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
Andrea Rossato wrote:
Still I do not understand you reference to the leak problem. Could you please elaborate a bit?
The runProcess function returns a ProcessHandle. If you don't call waitForProcess on that handle, you'll leak those handles. On Unix-like systems, this means you'll accumulate zombie processes and potentially fill your process table, DoSing your machine.
ahhh, yes, I found out the hard way. By the way, in the code I'm writing I was waiting for the exit code of the process. I forgot to copy it in the first example, and when I run it...;-) as you can see, the second version already corrected the problem. Thanks for your kind attention. All the best. andrea