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

[Dan Winship <danw ximian com>]

hm... anyone else seen message bodies being duplicated? i'm pretty sure
it didn't look like that in the composer...

On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 10:55, Dan Winship wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 10:39, Alex Jiang wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> It's not a solaris vs linux thing.
> 
> The patch you submitted makes soup try to clean up *all* zombies when an
> ssl proxy exits. That's inappropriate behavior for a library. Some of
> those zombies may have been created by the application, or by other
> libraries, which may be planning to wait() on them later to find their
> exit status.
> 
> The bug here is that soup_ssl_hup_waitpid is not being called for every
> ssl connection for some reasonOn Mon, 2003-03-31 at 10:39, Alex Jiang
> wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> It's not a solaris vs linux thing.
> 
> The patch you submitted makes soup try to clean up *all* zombies when an
> ssl proxy exits. That's inappropriate behavior for a library. Some of
> those zombies may have been created by the application, or by other
> libraries, which may be planning to wait() on them later to find their
> exit status.
> 
> The bug here is that soup_ssl_hup_waitpid is not being called for every
> closed ssl connection for some reason, and that's what needs to be
> fixed.
> 
> -- Dan
> 
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