Re: Zombie subprocesses

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:26:36 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Cc: Harald Hanche-Olsen <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> I've also been able to reproduce the bug.  Fixing this
> is nontrivial, unfortunately, so I've removed the
> patch from the emacs-24 branch (in bzr 110950).
> 
> I will look into it further as soon as I can, and will
> follow up at Bug#8855.  I expect that any fix will
> require further shakeout so it seems more appropriate
> for the trunk than for the emacs-24 branch.  Sorry.

Is leaving zombie processes here and there really worse than the
conflict with GTK-launched subprocesses?  Maybe I'm missing something,
but it sounds to me the other way around.  So IMO we should leave the
backported changes on the emacs-24 branch, even if it is eventually
decided not to fix the zombie problem, due to complexities of that
fix.