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Re: 1.3.2 : Fork + Sleep = problem
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 08:01:13AM -0700, Tak Ota wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 13:19:06 +0200, Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>
> > Since you only fork() but never wait(), your children processes
> > become zombies. The zombie list per process is fixed to ... 64 entries.
>
> Then why doesn't fork() start returning -1 when the number of zombie
> reaches maximum count? And why does sleep get affected by this?
Since that's the flaw in Cygwin I mentioned. The effect to sleep() was
basically due to writing over an array boundary which has reproducably
hit another signal related variable.
Unfortunately you'll have to wait for 1.3.3 or take a developers
snapshot to get the fixed behaviour.
Corinna
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