#4814 NORM Retriag: activities leave zombified process after closing

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#4814: activities leave zombified process after closing
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  Reporter:  erikos  |       Owner:  marco              
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  new                
  Priority:  normal  |   Milestone:  Retriage, Please!  
 Component:  sugar   |     Version:                     
Resolution:          |    Keywords:  rainbow-integration
  Verified:  0       |  
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Changes (by mstone):

  * keywords:  rainbow-integration, Update.1? => rainbow-integration
  * priority:  blocker => normal
  * milestone:  Update.1 => Retriage, Please!


Comment:

 Zombies are reaped lazily by Rainbow every time anyone starts an activity.
 The call is run synchronously so that all that existed at the time
 CreateActivity was called will be reaped before the new activity starts. I
 believe that this behavior is correct, though some might argue that a more
 elegant solution would reap zombies eagerly.

 That being said, we might wish to revise this behavior in order to give
 Sugar better information about crashed activities. At present, it has no
 way of knowing whether or not an activity it asked Rainbow to launch has
 crashed.

 Finally, Pippy cannot be resumed from the Journal because of #4831. See
 that bug for details and a proposed fix.

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