Re: Zombie process spawned by inputmgr

[email protected] (Matthew Allum) Mon, 17 Oct 2005 09:40:35 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.matchbox
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi;

on Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 01:22:21PM +0800, kainiu wrote:
> 
>          The input manager will spawn zombie process, coz it dose not
> waitpid() after send SIGKILL to child process. Dose anyone have the same
> problem as I had? Now I just simply add the waitpid() function to the right
> place where the inputmgr sends SIGKILL to child process, and it seems work.
> So if you guys have any better solution, please share it with me.
> 

Ah, zombies not good :/. I just committed a fix to SVN.

>          Also, matchbox is such an excellent work. Now I work on involving
> match components to our system solution as windows manager and desktop
> environment. So if anyone wants to share and discuss related information and
> spec detail, please feel free to send me mail.
> 

Sorry but I dont follow - what do you need ?

  -- Matthew