nprocs is the number of children, not the number of deceased children.
The incorrect comment used to apply to a variable nzombies. The
latter was removed in commit 8cb359d9 in 2004, but the comment was
never updated.
---
winsup/cygwin/sigproc.cc | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/sigproc.cc b/winsup/cygwin/sigproc.cc
index a5cf73bde..30c799f8c 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/sigproc.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/sigproc.cc
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ char NO_COPY myself_nowait_dummy[1] = {'0'};// Flag to
sig_send that signal goes
#define Static static NO_COPY
-Static int nprocs; // Number of deceased children
+Static int nprocs; // Number of children
Static char cprocs[(NPROCS + 1) * sizeof (pinfo)];// All my children info
#define procs ((pinfo *) cprocs) // All this just to avoid expensive
// constructor operation at DLL startup
--
2.28.0
