Johannes Schindelin
Johannes Schindelin
> Let me know if you have any ideas on how I can help test this. I will think on it a bit, maybe just stress-test pacman on Win10 on...
@dennisameling thank you so much for verifying that the work-around does what we'd hoped it would do!
> Note that one of the incarnations of this was apparently in pacman calling an install-info hook, which should have nothing to do with gpgme, so I'm not sure this...
> 1. will this change result in zombie processes? Those zombie processes are caused by the way Unix/Linux works: To be able to read the exit code of the exited...
I wonder whether GPGME should call `waitpid()` somewhere, which is the recommended way to get rid of zombie processes as far as I can tell...
> Hopefully this is now taken care of in [msys2/msys2-runtime#234](https://github.com/msys2/msys2-runtime/pull/234) Yes! [I tested this and it worked](https://github.com/git-for-windows/msys2-runtime/pull/73#issuecomment-2474066244)! Thank you so much @jeremyd2019 for your persistence, time and patience!
@lazka I implemented this in https://github.com/msys2/msys2-runtime/pull/114 but did not really have time to validate that it does what it is supposed to do.
> oh, cool, I gather you think this is a good idea then? Yes ;-)