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Hello Ladies, Sir's;
I'm a hobbyst programmer, only 2 months in linux world, can code only in assembly and english is not my mother language, so, be patience, I'm trying to do my best to explain.
I have coded a simple window example using gtk, without using glade, from a tutorial that I have found on the net writed in C, translated it to asm and it worked. After, my next goal is to create the same program, but now, using glade to draw the window. So, I have coded it and it worked.
Generally; from the C point of view, you end your program with "return", and after that the program end.
The last line of code, "call exit" function to terminate the process. So, I have tried change that call to a "syscall sys_exit", but the program does not terminate, stay like a zoombie process, I think that the program expect some signal or something that I cannot know how to deal.
The question is:
How can I end the pseudo code below using syscall sys_exit (__NR 60) ?


the glade file used:


Thank you for your patience. If need I can post all the source, or more details. Thanks in advance.

Hi,

This seams to be more of a bug in the parent application if you have definitely got zombie processes. Note it is best to use the normal exit() when you are working with a GUI application so that proper clean up can be done afterwards as the system _exit() will not be able to do that.

I would also try to learn a higher level language rather than use assembly. You would be less likely to produce errors and in the long run it would be easier and give you more portable code.

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Thanks for the reply Sr errol;
I agree with you about high level languages and portability.
That is just an exercise that I like to find a solution, because, I'm thinking here, C exit call make the low level invisible to the users, and I think that in a deeper way, in some moment, the C exit call deals with system call's to terminate the process.
Strange because, if I use other system call instead of sys_exit, let's suppose, sys_write to stdout, it works, but when I use sys_exit does not work.
I have used as an exercise, in some gtk examples, both, C exit and sys_exit, and worked. (Well, because sys_exit, portability fly out).
But, when I used that in a window template (glade), it does not have worked. I'm just curious about what is happening.
Again, thanks for the hint, be in peace.

The exit() function does much more than call _exit(). There is a function called atexit() where additional functions can be added to a list that would be called when exit() is called. GTK+ uses this is help with its clean up.

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