From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin <sten.kristian.ivarsson@gmail.com>,
cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: posix_spawnp creates ghost processes
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 11:10:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <94758478.20200424111042@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <008201d61a0a$328a5510$979eff30$@gmail.com>
Greetings, Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin!
> We're having a rather complex application and have noticed a rather weird
> behaviour that I cannot find any information about
> We're using posix_spawnp and sometimes it creates extra "ghost-process(es)"
> non visible to cygwin (via e.g. process status (ps)) but visible to Windows
> (Task Manager)
Cygwin may spawn processes for housekeeping. F.e. if you "program &" in shell,
an additional shell will be spawned to launch the "program" and notify the
parent shell when it exits.
> The function doesn't fail and it doesn't report any error, but sometimes
> (hard to reproduce deterministically) it creates one, or more, extra
> processes of the same binary
> Have anyone noticed and/or have some information/ideas about this ?
Are these processes correctly exit when all childs exit?
--
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Friday, April 24, 2020 11:08:35
Sorry for my terrible english...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-24 8:20 UTC|newest]
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2020-04-24 7:30 sten.kristian.ivarsson
2020-04-24 8:10 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2020-04-24 13:18 ` Sv: " sten.kristian.ivarsson
2020-04-24 12:47 ` Ken Brown
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