Hello Hari, On Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:04:04 +0200 Hari Mishal <[email protected]> wrote:
> The obsolete_target test spawns three sh processes and uses their pids > as DAMON monitoring targets. These processes are created without their > own stdin, so they inherit the test program's stdin, and they are never > waited on or told to exit. As a result, they are left running (or > become zombies) as orphaned children after the test program exits. Thank you for finding this problem and sharing this great patch! > > Give each sh process its own dedicated stdin pipe instead of inheriting > the test program's, and after the targets are no longer needed, > communicate() with each process to close its stdin. This sends EOF to > the shell, which makes it exit, and communicate() then reaps the > process. Can't we use terminate() or kill() instead of communicate()? Thanks, SJ [...]
