Re: [Fwd: Re: [Evolution-hackers] Question about defunc processes produced by libsoup on Solaris]

[Alex Jiang <alex jiang sun com>]

Hi

Could u give more detailed explaination of why so called "zombies" are
meaningful for soap?

I've never viewed the source of libsoap or used libsoup before.

But why zombies may happen in sol we should call wait to release them,
while not in linux?

>No, soup can't muck around with the application's signal semantics like
>that; something else in the app might be depending on zombies. The fix
>is to make sure that soup properly waits on all of its own zombies.
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>-- Dan
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