[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 158899] New: [GTK] Subprocess leak

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158899

            Bug ID: 158899
           Summary: [GTK] Subprocess leak
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: WebKit
           Version: Other
          Hardware: PC
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: WebKit Gtk
          Assignee: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
          Reporter: mcatanzaro at igalia.com
                CC: bugs-noreply at webkitgtk.org

I currently have one database process, two network processes, and 32 web processes running. But I have only one Epiphany instance with six tabs open. So we're leaking subprocesses. I've been hearing sporadic reports of this for some time, but I've never noticed it myself before now.

I have no clue what's causing this, but this should be entirely preventable on Linux using PR_SET_PDEATHSIG, which kills the child when the parent process dies. We should consider using this, but it might not be possible as we need to be careful not to kill child processes if they have e.g. cleanup work to do....

We should probably also make the UI process responsible for reaping child processes, so we don't need GLib's intermediate process that breaks the process hierarchy; that way it would be possible to tell which UI process corresponds to each subprocess.

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