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Re: 1.3.2 : Fork + Sleep = problem


I see.  Thanks for the additional explanation.

-Tak

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 18:51:51 +0200, Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:

> 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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