Zombie process in libpurple.

[Luke Schierer]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 08:01:52AM -0700, Rehan wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
>  But they are not acting as you mentioned. The threads are still in zombie
> state and the count keeps on increasing as user logins and logouts...
> 
> I am not using any advance feature of libpurple like sound, images etc. etc.
> I use only login,logout, change status and send and recieve message calls
> from the libpurple.
> 
> Regards,
> Rehan.

Is your application handling SIGCHLD?  Take a look at pidgin/gtkmain.c
or finch/gntmain.c for examples of this.

luke

> 
> 
> Luke Schierer-5 wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 07:32:30AM -0700, Rehan wrote:
> >> 
> >> Hi,
> >>   
> >>   I am developing an application powered by libpurple. But some strange
> >> thing is happening when i execute my application. Whenever a user logins
> >> into MSN 1-2 zombie process of my application is created which is not
> >> killed
> >> even after the user logouts. So per user logged in i have 2 zombies which
> >> eats up hell lot of process table space.
> >> 
> >>   As far as i know libpurple is single threaded and uses glib and my
> >> application is also using glib and does not create any new thread.
> >>  I am confused is this a problem in glib or libpurple or am i doing
> >> something wrong in my application while communicating libpurple. 
> >> 
> >> Thanks in advance to all great purple developers...
> >> 
> >> Regards,
> >> Rehan.
> > 
> > My guess is that these are dns processes that will kill themselves in 30
> > seconds (after their last use) or so.
> > 
> > luke
> > 
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