[Qt-creator] Zombie processes

[Winfried]

Today one of our developers had a QtCreator with 264 defunct  
processes. That creator had been running for at least several days.
When we closed QtCreator, fortunately all the zombies disappeared.

It's not the first time we see that.

W. Dobbe

On 17 feb 2009, at 20:30, Kris Wong wrote:

>>> I had been running creator for several hours yesterday when I  
>>> happened to
>>> take a look at the process list. Creator had probably around 30 -  
>>> 40 defunct
>>> child processes from running my application. This is likely due to  
>>> an issue
>>> with QProcess, which allows these defunct child processes to hang  
>>> around.
>>> We actually use a subclass of QProcess here, which takes care of  
>>> this problem.
>>
>> Did the running of Creator involve debugging?
>
> I believe it did. I saw this issue again today before I had even run  
> my
> application, so it may also have something to do with building.  
> Could be
> anything that uses a QProcess. If it would help I can try to narrow  
> down
> which actions do/do not cause the issue, when I have some time. I  
> would
> imagine it's pretty reproducible, though.
>
> Kris Wong
>
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