When QProcess->start() is called, Qt creates a pipe to the process to
get its exit value and output.
It does this with qt_create_pipe, which calls qt_safe_pipe.
qt_safe_pipe, on failure, returns 1. qt_create_pipe then
sets errno and returns void.
The calling function, QProcessPrivate::startProcess, does not check
errno, and thus continues to fork the process, assuming the pipe has been
created successfully.
The child process then has no way to pass its exit value to the calling
process, since the communication pipes it would normally use do not
exist, and thus when it exits it becomes a zombie.
As a bonus, if waitForFinished is called on a broken process, a crash
results because it is trying to wait on a pipe which does not exist.
The fix makes qt_create_pipe return an integer, and QProcess::startProcess
check the return value, set processError and not create the child
process.
Task-Number: QTBUG-18934
Change-Id: I2e1effdd0617be5b8c5492bcbcf5f2b1584b2241
Reviewed-by: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com>
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