Zombie process in libpurple.

[Rehan]

Thanks  Luke and Sadrul for the great advice ... The problem is solved now :) 

No more Zombies.


Luke Schierer-5 wrote:
> 
> 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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