Strange behaviour observed using hgtk

[Steve Borho]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Peter Williams <pwil3058 at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> When I started playing with hgtk with a view to running its tools from
> within gwsmhg I noticed that there were a lot of zombie hgtk processes on my
> system.  I started investigating this using the gnome system monitor and
> noticed that when I launched "hgtk guess" two processes showed up in the
> monitor (both with the same command line) but when I closed the window only
> one of the processes died and the other ended up detached from its original
> parent as a zombie.

That is odd.  We're not forking any processes.  Many hg commands are
run in threads, but we consume those threads when the commands are
completed.

I tried this locally on my Ubuntu box,  ps aux|grep hgtk only shows
one hgtk process.

Could there be something "interesting" in your Python setup?

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Steve Borho