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DosBox becomes a zombie process

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First post, by Guest

Posted on 2005-06-24, 22:48

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On Fedora Core 3 x86, I am calling DosBox from wxWidgets 2.6. When I close DosBox, wxWidgets is waiting for it to finish, but it doesn't.

I looked some more, and I found out the dosbox process is a zombie.

An suggestions?

Reply 1 of 3, by Guest

Posted on 2005-06-24, 23:35

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kill -9 ?

Reply 2 of 3, by Guest

Posted on 2005-06-25, 15:02

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Anonymous wrote:
kill -9 ?

You can't kill a zombie, it's already dead. 😵

That was my first try, then I read this: http://www.losurs.org/docs/zombies

Reply 3 of 3, by `Moe`

Posted on 2005-06-25, 16:20

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Read the libc manual regarding wait(), wait4() or waitpid(), you have to do that. Child processes stay around as zombies until you read their exit status with one of these functions.

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