On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:14:23AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > >> Are you using "zombie state" in the official meaning here (a process > >> that has terminated without its parent waiting for it, listed in a "ps > >> a" listing as Z)? Or just as a colloquial description? > I don't know what GLib does. And it's pretty much all idle speculation > without getting a clarification about what Jeremiah calls "zombie" here.
I'm sorry I guess it was not Z it was only S: jeremiahbenham 168 0.0 9.5 794068 99480 ?? S 3:09PM 0:04.41 /Users/jeremiahbenham/Desktop/Denemo.app/Contents/MacOS/../Resources/bin/lilypond --pdf -o /tmp/DenemoLXkZSN/denemoprintB /tmp/DenemoLXkZSN/denemoprintB.ly Here is the glib function we are using to call lilypond: g_spawn_async_with_pipes () http://www.gtk.org/api/2.6/glib/glib-Spawning-Processes.html#g-spawn-async-with-pipes I am going to set stderr to NULL and set the flag G_SPAWN_STDERR_TO_DEV_NULL to see if that fixes things. Thanks, Jeremiah > > -- > David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel