Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 08:01:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20010711.080113.96771529.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.3.2 : Fork + Sleep = problem From: Tak Ota In-Reply-To: <20010711131906.K8578@cygbert.vinschen.de> References: <3B4C1BF7.1807A0C7@aspen.mine.nu> <20010711131906.K8578@cygbert.vinschen.de> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.0 pre1 on Emacs 21.0.103.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) X-Telephone: +1-858-942-3239 X-Fax------: +1-858-942-9142 X-SnailMail: 16450 West Bernardo Drive MZ7205, San Diego, CA 92127-1804 Organization: Sony Electronics Inc. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 13:19:06 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Since you only fork() but never wait(), your children processes > become zombies. The zombie list per process is fixed to ... 64 entries. Then why doesn't fork() start returning -1 when the number of zombie reaches maximum count? And why does sleep get affected by this? -Tak -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/