On 18 October 2016 at 10:47, samermakadicy <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Sir/Madam, > > I was programming in C using Geany Text Editor on a Unix device today and > found an issue you might find interesting to resolve. > > During the C program, the fork() command was used to create a parent and a > child process. With the intent to explore the capabilities of the Unix > operating system to handle defunct processes (a.k.a. zombie processes), a > zombie process was created. Using bash and the “ps” command to view all the > processes running on the system, it was notable that two processes related > to Geany were found, namely “Geany” and “Geany (defunct)”. > > Following the zombie process that was created, bash was used to try and > eliminate the defunct process. With many attempts and the use of different > Unix commands, the defunct process could not be eliminated. However, > eliminating the “Geany” process could eliminate the “Geany (defunct)” > process as well. > > Whenever Geany was opened from the Unix terminal, the defunct process > immediately reappeared on the system. By default, rebooting/shutting down > the system eliminates all zombie processes. This approach was introduced in > my case, but as soon as I tried to open my .c file using Geany from the > terminal, the defunct process also reappeared. > > For more details about the system I am running, please find the details > below: > Geany Version: geany 0.21 > Unfortunately Geany 0.21 is over five years old and no longer supported. Please try with a newer version of Geany. Cheers Lex > GTK Version: 2.24.10 > OS: Linux version 3.2.0-31-generic x86_64 > > Looking forward to hearing from you soon. > > Kind Regards, > Samer Makadicy > > — > You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > <https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1266>, or mute the thread > <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAxgTfiP1JRd_X-4922lcDWqG47SPC7Oks5q1BclgaJpZM4KZQtZ> > . > -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1266#issuecomment-254380047
