Re: multi thread bug ?

[christophe barbe <christophe barbe ml online fr>]

Le 2001.09.04 10:29:00 +0200, Carlos Morgado a écrit :
> 
> On 2001.09.03 19:10:51 +0100 christophe barbe wrote:
> > I've noticed something that is certainly a bug related to multi-thread.
> > A few times ago I was used to launch balsa from gkrellm (a one process
> > monitoring program).
> > I've stop to do that for two reasons : Sometimes balsa freeze a few
> seconds
> > because it's father (gkrellm) do something in a busy manner (this is
> not
> > balsa related). And sometimes balsa doesn't start when I click on the
> mail
> > button.
> > 
> > The second is balsa related and I discovered (not explained) it
> yesterday
> > by doing a "ps -auxf".
> > Gkrellm never launch the mail program if the previous one is still
> active.
> > And balsa sometimes don't leave when you exit it. You can still see it
> in
> > the process and one of its child is "defunc".
> 
> this is a Gkrellm bug. this means it doesn't rip it's children properly.
> that usually leeds to all kind of nasty bugs cause the application gets 
> confused on programs are "active" and "inactive"
> been there, done that ;)

I believe you but when I  noticed the zombie process I was already no more
using gkrellm to launch balsa.
I will write a balsa launcher script that will warm me if an already balsa
is here and warm me double if there's a defunc. But I don't know what to do
if I catch it?

Christophe

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