#68 eboard processes left

[Khanh-Dang]

Hi, I've just seen recent activity in the CVS tree :)))

Hope my french translation (posted in the patches
section of the project page) will be soon included !

Anyway, eboard works very well for me, apart for one
thing :
Sometimes, and I haven't succeeded in finding why,
after having left eboard, there is one process that
still remain in background. When doing a "ps afx" I
often see many processes called "(eboard beeper)".

This is not very annoying, because a workaround is to
do a "killall eboard".

I am running a Linux box (distrib is Gentoo) with
kernel 2.4.27

[Felipe Bergo]

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I'll try to reproduce the problem. Someone sent me a french translation ages ago and it was included in 1.0.0, not sure if it was yours.

[Felipe Bergo]

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did some changes that may fix it (for 1.0.1, to be released Jan 8 2007)

If it still happens, open a new ticket.

[Khanh-Dang]

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I think the "(eboard beeper)" processes are left because the parent process crashed. I don't know why and how it could crash: an other user on my computer actually makes eboard crash and he has never told me about that. Then, a simple way to reproduce the problem is for example to run a "kill -9" on an eboard main process.

I suggest to find a workaround, such as a way for the child processes to kill themselves when they detect they are orphans. I don't know much about programming, so I can't help, but I think this should not be that difficult.