Aubin Paul wrote: > Ok, this is confusing. > > The change Dischi made today (change the kill -KILL to plain kill) > seems to have a weird side effect. It does kill the display, but > the children (Freevo's typically runs as five seperate copies due to > threading or something) don't die and now I've got 7 children.
fixed. > This obviously has nasty side effects because of all the duplicate > processes running (like the rom thread can't detect the mimetype of a > device properly) It's how linux implement threads. Short version: a thread is a process which shares the memory with the parent. So 'top' or 'ps' see threads as processes. Dischi -- I feel like a genocidal maniac when emacs asks me if I want to kill 10789 characters. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The SF.net Donation Program. Do you like what SourceForge.net is doing for the Open Source Community? Make a contribution, and help us add new features and functionality. Click here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
