[Mono-dev] Process.Start and WaitForExit on MacOS X

[Tom Philpot]

Submitted bug with a reproducible test case:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679936

On 3/15/11 12:26 PM, "Jonathan Pryor" <jonpryor at vt.edu> wrote:

>On Mar 15, 2011, at 2:57 PM, Tom Philpot wrote:
>> I've discovered that Process.Start(ProcessStartInfo info) leaves child
>>processes hanging around until the parent process dies, unless you call
>>WaitForExit() on the child process.
>...
>> Is this a bug or by design?
>
>The problem is the Process.ExitCode property. There's no way to retrieve
>this value except through the waitpid(2) (and related) system calls, so
>the process can't be fully disposed just in case the ExitCode property
>will be accessed.
>
>That said, once the instance has been disposed, it shouldn't be necessary
>to keep anything open, and the child handles should be closed. Given that
>you _are_ using a `using` block, and thus disposing of the instance, it
>seems that this is likely a bug and that Process.Dispose() isn't fully
>closing all resources as it should.
>
>(For that matter, the Process finalizer should also be disposing of
>unmanaged resources, and it looks like that isn't the case either).
>
>Could you please file a bug?
>
>Thanks,
> - Jon
>