From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 17:01:02 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (delete_child): Don't terminate threads of zombies.
X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-22.1.90~863
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a017b5157470ddde480d17812ad78ff6247b643d;p=emacs.git

(delete_child): Don't terminate threads of zombies.
---

diff --git a/src/w32proc.c b/src/w32proc.c
index adf5152f267..c21d589c525 100644
--- a/src/w32proc.c
+++ b/src/w32proc.c
@@ -216,12 +216,18 @@ delete_child (child_process *cp)
 	  /* let the thread exit cleanly if possible */
 	  cp->status = STATUS_READ_ERROR;
 	  SetEvent (cp->char_consumed);
+#if 0
+          /* We used to forceably terminate the thread here, but it
+             is normally unnecessary, and in abnormal cases, the worst that
+             will happen is we have an extra idle thread hanging around
+             waiting for the zombie process.  */
 	  if (WaitForSingleObject (cp->thrd, 1000) != WAIT_OBJECT_0)
 	    {
 	      DebPrint (("delete_child.WaitForSingleObject (thread) failed "
 			 "with %lu for fd %ld\n", GetLastError (), cp->fd));
 	      TerminateThread (cp->thrd, 0);
 	    }
+#endif
 	}
       CloseHandle (cp->thrd);
       cp->thrd = NULL;