PR# 11281 Every workbench system execution leaves one more defunct process

Problem Report Summary

Submitter: prestoat2000

Category: EiffelStudio

Priority: Medium

Date: 2006/09/13

Class: Bug

Severity: Serious

Number: 11281

Release: 5.7.63441

Confidential: No

Status: Analyzed

Responsible: jfiat_es

Environment: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050726 Firefox/1.0.6 Solaris 9 on SPARC

Synopsis: Every workbench system execution leaves one more defunct process

Description

Every time system execution is started from estudio, when system execution
terminates or is killed, there is one more defunct process.  It seems to
me that you know when a program is ending or being killed, so you could
wait for these processes and prevent the buildup of defunct processes.

To Reproduce

Problem Report Interactions

From:prestoat2000 Date:2009/08/24 Download

Yes, defunct processes still build up (one per system execution under
estudio) in 6.4.80294 on Solaris SPARC.

From:ted_eiffel Date:2009/08/24 Download

Is this still reproducible in 6.5?

From:prestoat2000 Date:2006/09/27 Status: Analyzed Download

This is not fixed in 5.7.63909 on Solaris SPARC.

Reopening this report.

From:jfiat_es Date:2006/09/21 Status: Closed Download

This should be fixed in repository (revision 63772).
The correction will be available in next release.

From:manus_eiffel Date:2006/09/13 Status: Analyzed Download

This is because we don't ignore SIGCLD anymore. The best thing to do is to keep the same ecdbgd process for now.