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Phantom processes left over
- From: Richard H Lee <ricardohenrylee at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:32:24 +0100
- Subject: Phantom processes left over
Has anybody come across processes being left over?
I'm extending an open source project. The functionality I'm adding is
keeping track of running processes. I store the list of active processes
in shared memory. When querying the list I also call kill with a 0
signal on all the entries to test if they are still running.
The problem is that when a process has clearly ended, by this I mean it
does on show up in cygwin's ps or window's task manager, calling kill
with signal 0 still returns 0. The same for calling "kill -s 0 <pid>"
from the command line. This indicates that supposedly the process is
still running. Also the pid is still present in the /proc filesystem.
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