[MacRuby-devel] [MacRuby] #430: MacRuby does not reap processes started with popen

[MacRuby]

#430: MacRuby does not reap processes started with popen
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 Reporter:  neeracher@…          |       Owner:  lsansonetti@…        
     Type:  defect               |      Status:  new                  
 Priority:  major                |   Milestone:                       
Component:  MacRuby              |    Keywords:                       
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 in macirb, run the following line:

 (0..100).each {IO.popen("echo yo") do |f| end}

 in a separate shell, run "ps -eaf". It will show 100 zombie processes.

 A source code comparison suggests that MacRuby, as opposed to ruby 1.9,
 does not call waitpid when popen descriptors are closed.

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Ticket URL: <http://www.macruby.org/trac/ticket/430>
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