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Author pitrou
Recipients nnorwitz, pitrou, rosslagerwall
Date 2011-03-20.16:59:45
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> I'm not sure. Was reap_children() meant to just reap zombie processes
> or wait for all children to finish?

Apparently just to reap zombie processes. At least that was the initial
intent. And it's true that we don't really need to collect all children
immediately, so perhaps this patch is overkill.

> It seems like it was written to just reap zombie processes. Might this
> not cause hangs during testing sometimes if a subprocess that was
> started has itself hung?

Yep.
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Date User Action Args
2011-03-20 16:59:46pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, nnorwitz, rosslagerwall
2011-03-20 16:59:45pitroulinkissue11616 messages
2011-03-20 16:59:45pitroucreate