Greetings, Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin! > We're having a rather complex application and have noticed a rather weird > behaviour that I cannot find any information about
> We're using posix_spawnp and sometimes it creates extra "ghost-process(es)" > non visible to cygwin (via e.g. process status (ps)) but visible to Windows > (Task Manager) Cygwin may spawn processes for housekeeping. F.e. if you "program &" in shell, an additional shell will be spawned to launch the "program" and notify the parent shell when it exits. > The function doesn't fail and it doesn't report any error, but sometimes > (hard to reproduce deterministically) it creates one, or more, extra > processes of the same binary > Have anyone noticed and/or have some information/ideas about this ? Are these processes correctly exit when all childs exit? -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Friday, April 24, 2020 11:08:35 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
