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Re: 3.0 mach-task propagate help!

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From: Chuck Henrich
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 18:02
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sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) writes:

>During the prerelease phase, we found that many of these zombies were spawned  
>because of terminal.app by simply opening a terminal window and then closing  
>it.

>Don't really worry about these processes unless there becomes a great number  
>of them.  They only fill up process slots (which there are a limited number  
>of) but as far as Mach and NeXTSTEP are concerned, these processes don't  
>exist.

Well currently I have 218 tasks, and they keep growing rather rapidly, I expect
something quite nasty to happen when the process table fills... Yeesh, how can
NeXT ship a product with such a bug?

-Crh
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Charles Henrich      Michigan State University      henrich@crs.cl.msu.edu
     
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